Word: perelman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...casual fancy, S. J. Perelman once concocted an actor of surpassing ego. "I see a fresh new concept of drama knocking at the door," he said. "A theatre without plays . . . devoid of scenery and untrammeled by actors...
...Perelman named his actor Basil Woolwine. He could just as well have called him Anthony Newley. In the latest case of lifelessness imitating artlessness, Newley continues his long love affair with Newley. Can Heironymus Merlcin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? "is a real ego trip," says the Director-Writer-Star. But it is less a trip than a misfired space shot blasting $1,250,000 to ashes...
...purposes." Sheed's first models were the "flat but musical" styles of such Americans as James Thurber and Sherwood Anderson; later, he added the English writers Cyril Connolly and E. M. Forster. Now he describes his fictional ideal as "Flaubert and James with the language of Wodehouse and Perelman...
...VIOLENT PEACE, by Carl and Shelley Mydans. Two veteran combat correspondents combine memorable war pictures and eyewitness accounts of 44 TIME-LIFE correspondents to examine the changing face of war in the nuclear age. 1897 SEARS ROEBUCK CATALOGUE, introductions by S. J. Perelman and Richard Rovere. A dazzling trove for both serious and lighthearted students of Americana, this hardcover facsimile of a popular mailorder catalogue mirrors the manners, morals and appetites of the Gay Nineties...
...Legend has it that Sears wrote every single word of the copy that described the dizzying array of 6,000 articles listed in the book. Alternating between soft sell and hard, occasionally combining both, his exhortatory prose provides an intriguing contrast with today's merchandising methods. S. J. Perelman, in his introductory essay, even professes to see a touch of malevolence in Sears' flat statement: "Our boot and shoe department is admirable. If we can't suit you in quality and price, there is no use in looking further...