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''I know almost nothing about my great-grandparents. The only thing I do know is that my great-grandmother on my mother's side was a full-blooded Blackfoot Indian, with hair down to the bend of her knee.'' From disco queen GLORIA GAYNOR's memoir, I Will Survive (St. Martin's, $23.95)
''When Dr. Bhatta, the Hindu 'neurologist,' acquired the old Kuypers estate, which no one else would buy, and installed there his entourage of two faded, Western lady secretaries, a number of indeterminately transient guests, and a faintly rotten, saffron breeze of curry, the neighbors...absorbed his advent with little more than mild comment.'' From ''Tale for the Mirror,'' the first piece in The Novellas of Hortense Calisher (Modern Library, $20)
