The Girl With the Golden Bouffant: An Original Jane Bond Parody.The Girl With the Golden Bouffant bouf·fant adj. Puffed-out; full: a bouffant hair style. [French, from present participle of bouffer, to puff up, from Old French. : An Original Jane Bond Parody. By Mabel Maney This biographical article or section needs additional references for verification. Please help [ to improve this article] by adding additional sources. Unverifiable material about living persons must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. Harper Entertainment, $14.95 What's a lesbian to do in glittering gin City circa 1966? Here's a conceivable itinerary. Play a hand of craps craps: see dice. craps Gambling game in which each player in turn throws two dice, attempting to roll a winning combination. The term derives from a Louisiana French word, crabs, which means “losing throw. , catch a tasteless Liberace show, flirt with a few scantily scant·y adj. scant·i·er, scant·i·est 1. Barely sufficient or adequate. 2. Insufficient, as in extent or degree. scant clad showgirls, and then top it all off by throwing an FBI agent off the Hoover Dam! It's just another day in the life of Bond ... Jane Bond. The second installment in Mabel Maney's 007-and-a-half-series has Jane masquerading as twin bro James, whose career of "boozing, bullets, and broads" has finally caught up with him, to infiltrate a men only spy convention in Las Vegas, Haney has a gift For serving up queer sensibility cloaked as snappy '60s idiom and for propelling plot with a narrative style reminiscent of Nancy Drew and the Hardy boys. The delicious twists she throws into the mix (e.g, Jane's true allegiance lies with G.E.O.R.G.I.E,, an elite organization of she-spies) will make you sit up in your deck chair faster than it takes that first martini (shaken, not stirred "Shaken, not stirred" is a famous catch phrase of Ian Fleming's fictional British Secret Service agent, James Bond and his preference for how he wished his martini prepared. ) to materialize from the hand of your poolside waiter. A savory way to end the summer. |
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