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In Crazy Salad, New Yorker Nora Ephron demonstrates her steely sense of humor and fearsome powers of observation. The theme of the book basically revolves around women, feminism and the conflicts of daily life in the United States. Among the various topics that she addresses: the autobiographical, in the hilarious story "Some Observations on Breasts"; women's sexual fantasies; the "vaginal politics" ("We're past the time when happiness was a cuddly puppy and happiness was a dry martini and we've come to the era where happiness is 'knowing what your uterus looks like'") ; the defeat of Betty Friedan, "the-mother-of-all-us", against Gloria Steinem, the representative of the new generation; the use of the feminist movement by political parties; beauty queens; awareness groups; the ineffable star of the Deep Throat porn film, Linda Lovelace; a tremendous national cooking contest, which is a vitriolous portrayal of the housewife of the silent majority; the persistence of macho behavior among allegedly progressive men; the manipulation of women by the cosmetics industry; etc. etc.