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COCKSURE, by Mordecai Richler. Satirist Richler's basic weapon is seductio ad absitrdum in this stylish spoof of the communications industry and pop culture...
COCKSURE, by Mordecai Richler. Satirist Richler's basic weapon is seductio ad absurdum in this stylish spoof of the communications industry and pop culture...
Visitor from Hollywood is a case of seductio ad absurdum. It rests on the somewhat shaky premise that a Hollywood producer would set up an afternoon rendezvous with a suburban ma tron he once dated-17 years before-in order to kill an hour in bed. There is more lacquer than lecher in Scott's peacock-of-the-walk performance, but Stapleton is properly kittenish as she downs vodka stingers until she can only feel the bites on her neck...
Constant Clown. Barbara Harris plays it all in reverse. She not only has a bosom, she saucily displays it. As a constant nympho in Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, she nearly fell out of her blouse giggling, wiggling and winding around a virginal young man in a nocturnal round of seductio ad absurdum...
Married. Emily ("Micky") Hahn, 40, freethinking, cigar-smoking, best-selling authoress (Seductio ad Absurdum, China to Me); and Major Charles Boxer, 41, Britain's Hong Kong intelligence chief in 1941 and war-long Jap captive, father of Emily's four-year-old daughter Carola; she for the first time,* he for the second; in New Haven, Conn. Said Bride Emily: "I believe in the law, marriage and monogyny. . . . Every child needs a father who is at home. If Charles had died in prison camp I would have married some one else...