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Described as "America's most precious lunatic" by ordinarily venomous critics, Perelman occupies his own peculiar niche among top-ranking humorists. His biting, savoury style, bolstered by an endless supply of weird adjectives, signals a rocking belly laugh among even the most profound readers. For this adulation Perelman depends upon a speedy change of pace in the sequence of stories, the ridiculous image, and a willingness to play the fool for the benefit of his audience...
...pipe-dream of a home in Pennsylvania's Bucks County are due for a rude awakening. Long fabled as the city dweller's Valhalla, a land inhabited by glittering artistic folk and their swimming pools, ol debbil Bucks County squirms evilly under the pen of master funnyman S. J. Perelman. In this newest offering, Mr. Perelman has created a sometimes hilarious expose of a plague spot overgrown with Japanese beetles and a gigantic land crab often called "the rustic...
...Acres and Pains" tries hard to laugh its way into the honor spot conceded "Crazy Like a Fox" and "Dawn Ginsberg's Revenge," but falls somewhat short of red-hot. Perelman subjects must be taken in short doses to remain fresh, but, "Acres and Pains" lacks the necessary shift of topic, becoming a well-executed, if occasionally heavy rehash of life on the farm. Composed of a series of magazine articles filled in with new material, the book does not show a continuous level of quality throughout. The older, more familiar chapters emphasize the bawdy wit of Perelman...
That day Humorist Perelman acquired not only Bijou Lass but two other cows to keep her company. When they arrived at Rising Gorge, his Bucks County (Pa.) farm, his wife took one look and turned a "dusty vermilion." He started to explain, "but the poor creature, irrational as only her sex can be, caught up a nest of flowerpots and was trying to get my range. I spent the night doubled up in a feed bin, listening to the mammoths eating me into bankruptcy. ... To date, they have tucked away twelve bales of hay, five blocks of salt and three...
...Perelman was a pioneer in the Broadway-to-Bucks-County rush which has filled the county's farmhouses with highbrow yeomen, including Moss Hart, Dorothy Parker and Pearl Buck. Acres and Pains, made up of 21 pieces originally published in magazines, deals sharply with such rural hazards as weekend guests, domestic animals, tractors and antiques ("Is anybody around here looking for a bargain in an Early Pennsylvania washstand? . . . Genuine pumpkin pine, with ball-and-claw feet, and a small smear of blood where I tripped over it last night in the dark"). Unlike some other city farmers, Perelman...