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Around holiday season, stocking-stuffer items like The Slipper and the Rose usually show up, all covered in glitter and good will. These gaudy little baubles are easy enough to tolerate in the floodtide of fellowship that ebbs and flows around Christmas. Holidays are over, however, a cold wet January is upon the land, and The Slipper and the Rose lingers on, looking as foolish as Cinderella hotfooting it out of the palace as her ball gown turns to rags...
...Shorty was quite an operator," a sausage stuffer quips. "I don't see the connection," comes the inevitable reply...
...worse books have been written for better motives, however, and despite the overcomplicated substructure, Buckholz's novel is an intermittent delight. The author is the best free-associating baloney stuffer since Richard Condon got tired. Matthew Mendelsohn's lies are good lies indeed -grossly outrageous and very funny. There is the lie of the Jewish Miss Universe, the lie of Matthew's buddy's on-the-battlefield commission, the truly evil-minded lie of Rosa the Kisser. Each is an authentic zircon, guaranteed to scratch cheese, free of defects for 90 days, less parts and labor...
...barely bulgy, the next she seemed six months along, and within a week she was 14 months pregnant. By this time even the most motherly fan had guessed that Mia's baby was really Rosemary's Baby, and that the father was an unknown pillow stuffer in Paramount's wardrobe department...
Faced with such voter cunning, the Interior Ministry before the latest election grappled for weeks with the delibility factor, finally developed an ink so potent that many a horny-handed Somali ballot stuffer came down with a skin rash. That took care of most repeaters. Despite scattered reports of overenthusiastic balloting, not to mention a slight riot (13 dead, 20 hurt), Somalia's election was the straightest in its young history-and one of the freest in all Africa. All but final results announced last week gave the ruling, middle-road Somali Youth League of Premier Ab-dirashid...