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There is a great deal of hectic coupling in this film, all of it staged with chintzy tastefulness, as if the participants were being arranged for a department-store window display. The exotic Far Eastern locations make for a few postcard snaps and a lot of unintentionally hilarious dialogue. Murmurs a sapphic archaeologist setting up a rendezvous with Emmanuelle: "Come to the klongal 2." Had Terry Southern been involved, the city of Bangkok might have been the occasion for a few robust puns. But that, like much else, presumably does not translate...
...Andre Derain and Graphics by Henri Matisse at the Pucker/Safrai Gallery, 171 Newbury St.. Paintings by Dan Rosenbluth '75 pottery by the staff of the Radcliffe Pottery Studio at Ticknor Library, Boylston Hall, through Dec. 20 And, finally, "Wish you Were Here" a history of the Picture Postcard (In my hometown, stores used to sell postcards of Alcatraz with that choice phrase in yellow script on the front) at the Institute of Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston St. in Boston, through Jan.4...
...Czech comic novelist Milan Kundera comes up at a time when to be persecuted in Czechoslovakia is not a clear advantage. Kundera's work was banned in Czechoslovakia not long after his novel The Joke was published in 1967. It was about a youth who innocently wrote a postcard to his girl friend that teased her about her dedication to Communism. His little joke got him seven years at hard labor. As Philip Roth notes in his introduction to Kundera's short-story collection Laughable Loves, the author also paid. Now 45, Kundera lives in the provincial city...
They all promised to send him a postcard verifying that his application was complete...
...staple of Middle Europe. A general, getting to heaven, demands to know why the soldiers he passes do not do "Eyes right." His driver explains that they cannot because their heads have been blown off. When the battalion goes to get rations, they get instead a postcard with the message...