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Bellow's lines are sometimes witty, always literate and frequently laced with Jewish humor, but one can never be sure whether he is spoofing the language of pop-psych or employing it. He is not earthy enough to be bawdy, so his scenes and situations register as leeringly risqué rather than forthrightly bold. Shelley Winters and Harry Towb do unerringly professional acting jobs, but Bellow has yet to learn that language is not the master of the stage but simply a fuse to ignite dramatic action...
Typical is Your Father's Mustache in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. There, for $3, the nostalgiophile can sit back with a pitcher of Schlitz and have a look under the mellow light of Tiffany lamps at gilt-framed pictures of Civil War officers. Fellows feeling particularly risqué can peep at pictures of Gay Nineties showgirls; those feeling like a change of face can purchase a mustache for 50?. Young people feel a sense of release from the rapt silence that is derigueur at cool-jazz joints. Stag girls like the clubs because the wholesome entertainment reassures them...
...dash off a "wish-you-were-here" note on one of those "naughty postcards." From Brighton and Blackpool, millions of the garishly colored cards are mailed each year with their fat ladies and skinny drunks, timid vicars and saucy tarts, bashful honeymooners and beery, bulb-nosed husbands, all with risqué captions. Since 1904, their creator, shy, retiring Donald McGill, turned out no fewer than 12,500 cards, and sold 200 million copies. In London, the "King of the Postcards" died at 87, and Britain last week mourned the passing of an institution...
...Nevill Coghill (TIME, Aug. 11, 1952), this first album contains the roll call of the Pilgrims in the Prologue, and the tales of the Monk, the Nun's Priest, the Reve, the Manciple and the Man of Law-a cross section of stories gay and gloomy, garrulous and risqué. A fine item for a long winter's night...
...Ensign, Canada's Catholic weekly, pointed out: "The market has been flooded with daring and risqué comics portraying the romance and love-life of the teen-ager . . . Sales have climbed back to the pre-ban level...