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Years ago he may have used the name of Racquel Welch or Ursula Andress, but the joke would have been the same. It hasn't changed and neither has its response, an almost unified laughter that comes right...
...begrudge me one day off out of seven?" After other reporters mockingly beat the questioner with their notebooks, shouting their demands for a day off as well, Anderson took the cue. When leaving the room, he whacked the reporter on the head with his own note pad -to the laughter of the press corps...
...propaganda." Editor Amory does a superb job of reconstructing this complex, hidden man. The job was not easy; one nickname-filled early letter requires 31 footnotes. All the work was worth it. One of this century's greatest English prose stylists is back again, provoking outrage, thought and laughter. -By Paul Gray
...experiments with tastelessness (jokes about Guyana, rape and human lampshades). He steals from his own short stories, and even from Interiors. But he can't seem to find what he's looking for. "Doesn't he know he has the greatest gift anyone could have, the gift of laughter?" says a critic. "I don't feel funny," responds Woody. "I look around the world and all I see is human suffering." "Tell funnier jokes," demand the critics, "too much reality is not what the people want." "Yeah, but I've got to find meaning," insists Woody, as if his jokes...
...could Walesa complain about his own exposure. He held a press conference at the Warsaw office of Interpress, the government news agency. He drew laughter and applause as he deftly fielded questions from some 200 Polish and foreign journalists. In response to one combative Soviet reporter, Walesa snapped, "We are cleaning our own house. We are not endangering anyone. The whole world understands. So you understand this: we are making small changes and perhaps others should follow our example...