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COCKSURE, by Mordecai Richler. Satirist Richler's basic weapon is seductio ad absitrdum in this stylish spoof of the communications industry and pop culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 22, 1968 | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

COCKSURE, by Mordecai Richler. Satirist Richler's basic weapon is seductio ad absurdum in this stylish spoof of the communications industry and pop culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 15, 1968 | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

COCKSURE by Mordecai Richler. 250 pages. Simon & Schuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Minorities Are Funny | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...Stick Your Neck Out, Mordecai Richler's 1963 satirical novel, an Eskimo conquers the demi-world of Canadian intellectuals and literally loses his head on a quiz show that plays for keeps. Cocksure trades in the same buffoonery of annihilation and, like its predecessor, scores easily on some already heavily dented targets: big business, the communications industry, pop culture, organized morality, modern education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Minorities Are Funny | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...shirking for years, is about ten married or mismarried pairs in a New England town, and Updike can be expected to use his apparently limitless descriptive gifts to detail sexual acts. Gore Vidal's new book poses the question of whether a transvestite can find happiness in Hollywood. Mordecai Richler's novel-a satire about movies and publishing in London-is called Cocksure, and the climax describes the ultimate in autoerotic acts. Terry Southern's Blue Movie promises to be a blue book and Lawrence Durrell's first novel in eight years celebrates sensuality under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coming Attractions | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

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