Word: borscht
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...monologist, and his effect depends not so much on the credibility of his characters or incidents as on the incredibility of his language. He is a not-so-ancient mariner of kitsch, whose voyages seem mostly to have been out of the sovereign state of innocence via the borscht circuit. He re-enacts them repeatedly under assumed names in this, his first collection, emerging from a Jewish childhood on Manhattan's Lower East Side, mournful yet wide-eyed, trying to gain his fortune and lose his virginity without missing a single opening...
...there on location in Malta were a lot of people the new starlet probably hadn't met before. For instance, George Jessel played The Presence, who follows Hieronymous, wears ivory suits with ivory lace shirts and ivory ties, carries an ivory parasol, and goes through Borscht Belt jokes (very well, if you like them) at several crucial points. Milton Berle was the devil, Mr. Goodtime Eddie Filth, who honest-to-God baked big-breasted sex in a private oven and also hand cranked the shaft that turned Mercy's Merry-go Round...
...Nice try but no cigar," said Tim. "Eleven million they spend for this picture and all of a sudden it's for borscht?" He did this in a flamboyant Hollywood accent. The quote was from a Jane Russell picture called The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown. And after that, the takes went beautifully...
Singles veterans are beginning to form judgments: "The thing about the Borscht Belt-Grossinger's, the Concord-that sort of thing," says a Bloomingdale's shoe salesman, "is that all those broads go up there with a chip on their shoulder, ready to check out the first time they get a soft egg. But on a cruise-who's to check...
Peruvian foot-warmers, simulated Ocelot skins, Russian borscht bowls, Garbo hats, pop neckties, Japanese origami kits, Indian temple candles, flicks of the forties posters, papier mach*e roosters, handcrafted jewelry and rings. Saki sets, Yugoslavian enamelware, mugs mobiles, and mukluks...