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...Seven-Per-Cent Solution is two stories, neither one sturdy enough to support the weight of a full plot. The first has Holmes strung out on cocaine - his dosage is the pun in the title - and railing crazily against his nemesis, Professor Moriarty (Laurence Olivier). Dr. Watson (Robert Duvall) tricks his friend into following Moriarty's trail to Vienna. There they find not the archvillain, but the only man who can possibly save Holmes: Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin). All this uses up time that might have been better spent drumming up suspense or demonstrating some elementary deduction. When Holmes...
...already and the parties were in second gear going into the first hairpin turn, yelping at the little mechanical rabbit and jostling for position. It was time to move to a new location, close the shop out, hold a 50 per cent sale. The only pun we could dredge up concerned the cataracts of the Nile, but all the Egyptian suntanned silt fucked up our upstairs wiring...rinse it out, waterfalls, going over the edge of the abyss...
Here are Peter Arno's ageless chorines and satyrs; Helen Hokinson's gaggle of club women; Saul Steinberg's pun-and-ink illuminations; the Thurber people who always reminded Dorothy Parker of unbaked cookies. Here, too, is the ir repressible new generation of arche types: George Booth's slatternly couples-obviously the illegitimate descendants of George Price's cluttered screwballs; Lee Lorenz' literate animals, minerals and vegetables; and Ed Koren's celebrated shaggy people stories...
...become one of the major U.S. companies, largely due to the efforts of a former Golden Gloves lightweight from Omaha named Glynn Ross. He has been called everything from a publicity hound to the hip huckster of grand opera. He loves promoting. "Get ahead with Salome," read the shameless pun on one poster...
...Bouton, former Yankee pitcher and a friend of Messing's called Messing up and told him Viva wanted a pro athlete for its December foldout. Messing recalls the incident with a chuckle: "I had done some modeling while in college and I thought it would be good exposure (no pun intended). So partly as a joke and partly as a business venture...