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Just as the characters fall flat, so does most of the humor. Korcheff and Richler try to mingle comedy with satire by including all of the obligatory but overworked jokes. As they indiscriminately mock diverse sectors of American life, their many-colored pallet congeals into a brown blob. Particularly offensive are the overheated but not well done comments on sex change operations, the welfare system, and rugged individualism. In one scene, Jane's father refuses to lend money because he worships an icon of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the promoter of self-reliance. Here, the humor is too forced...
Temperature rising as he flashed his badge and journeyed upstairs to the press conference. It was in a small room, with little sunlight and tight around the collar. The speaker's table was engulfed by a grotesque blob of lenses and flesh and cigars and cameras and elbows and underarms. In the middle of the frantic enterprise she appeared. Like a jelly donut atop an anthill. They swarmed...
...proud to see women take their place in music. However, one cannot regard Sarah Caldwell as anything but a big blob of blubber...
...BASIC POINT that Nora Ephron is making about women and the women's movement is a good one. "In fact," she writes, "the movement is nothing more than amorphous blob of individual women and groups, most of whom disagree with each other." And the way she usually makes that point. In this collection of 25 deftly written little essays most of which originally appeared in Esquire or New York magazines, is to zero in on all sorts of different women, all of them indisputably individual--Gloria Steinem. Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Linda Lovelace. But there is one highly individual woman...
Concealed Blob. Finally, Nolen, who had not revealed his identity, tested Filipino healers by undergoing surgery himself for high blood pressure. Before the operation began, he noticed his "surgeon" palming a reddish-yellow object. During the operation, he watched the psychic double up his hands so that it would look as if they were inside Nolen's body. Nolen, who knows a little anatomy, was not fooled: the surgeon's hands never even penetrated his skin. Nor was Nolen impressed by the results of the operation. The surgeon held up the blob he had been concealing...