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...Andy and Norman know how to wisecrack like second-rate Henny Youngmans, and use this to put Sophie at a disadvantage. She can only spout whatever middle-Americanisms that the New York Jewish quipster-author felt right for the moment. I would for the life of me like to recount some dialogue for the record, but it is all so inert, so clearly the work of a hack intent on a string of easy laughs without sustained character, that it slips through the memory as swiftly as my last trip to the supermarket. (There is one joke about cherry...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: A Simon Screw Job | 7/11/1972 | See Source »

...first order of business when the Traveler folded was for the regulars at The Globe to recount old tales of covering stories with tenacious, but friendly, competitors from the Traveler whom they spent years trying to screw out of inside information. The Globe's management, still gasping at the relatively paltry $8.5 million price tag paid for the Traveler and its immense mechanical plant, mustered the good-naturedness to run a front-page editorial welcoming their new competitor. The Herald Traveler and Record American's publisher, Harold Kern, welcomed his paper into existence--also on the front page--with...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: More of the Commonplace | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...least accessible of the three plays; it is only referred to in passing as "They." Beckett takes us inside someone's mind, a mind composed of only three elements, Voice, Music, and the Opener. The latter's function is to open and close the other two. Compelled forever to recount stories not of his own making, the mind drones on, "...saying to myself...finish this one...it's the right one...then rest...then sleep...no more stories...no more words...and finished it...and not the right one...couldn't rest ..." The music counterpoints the voice, the Opener protests...

Author: By Kenneth G. Bartels, | Title: Hands Off! | 5/31/1972 | See Source »

...reports, has also written into his story a kind of primer on mutual-fund management. Sample advice: "Buy the stocks of dominant companies in small but growing industries with a low profile." Vartan also offers a collection of anecdotes about bulls and bears of the past, which his characters recount with the fervor of Hot Stove League fanatics swapping memories about Willie Mays' catches or Curt Flood's legal problems. Vartan has also unwisely included some love affairs and a subplot about Milliken's revenge on the ex-basketball player who stole his first girl. Alas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mercurial God | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

...investment question. They can now best continue the struggle by abandoning the building--or else risk diverting: campus debate to subsidiary issues like administration response and amnesty. No one can reasonably expect that a prolonged takeover will force Bok's crisis handlers to return to the Corporation for a recount. Despite its short-term attractiveness, a game of chicken between the protestors and the Administration is a deadend...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Why Strike? | 4/22/1972 | See Source »

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