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...draping his motley over perishable structures, the satirist risks that they will some day collapse, taking his work down with them. A number of pieces in Guilty Pleasures are predicated on Richard Nixon, and their bite has already become gummy. One of the book's funnier stories (An Hesitation on the Bank of the Delaware) overcomes this loss through shameless slapstick. George Washington postpones his rowboat crossing until hearing whether Congress will continue to finance his personal extravagances. Speaking in an age when the printed s looked like an f, an aide informs the general that demands...
...could possibly offend the comfortable businessman in from Brookline for a wild evening in the Square. Perhaps the funniest bit is about a youngman who takes his incredibly uncouth date to a fancy French restaurant. Even honest gross-out humor like this (it ends with her throwing up) seems funnier than "mild" political satire. During the Ford routines, for example, we're laughing at a stupid man, any stupid man, and the fact that he's President of the United States--and that that's the funniest thing of all--is hardly touched upon or used to give an added...
President Bok's reaction to Amherst's announcement would be funnier if easy-going acceptance of sexual discrimination didn't have such serious consequences. "Harvard's progress toward merger or toward equality" can't be measured by Harvard's sex ratio, Bok said, without attempting to suggest a more appropriate measure...
After long seasons of Big Rhoda jokes, the star finally put her weight -and her foot-down. Viewers had long suspected that underneath the avoirdupois there was a slim beauty screaming to get out. Now she emerged funnier than ever-and too big to stay put. Thus Rhoda was born...
...Stop [1956]. Marilyn Monroe was better used as a comedienne than sex star, and she was rarely funnier than in this adaptation of William Inge's play. Ch. 56, 2 p.m. Color, 2 hours...