Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some reason quite a bit of this basic action is rather lamely executed. One suspects that the film makers were so busy devising good stuff for Peter Sellers to do in his fourth impersonation of the serenely incompetent Clouseau that they neglected the long periods when he is not onscreen. One feels for Lom and the rest of the cast, working sweatily to be funny with not much help from the creative talents. On the other hand, Sellers is amply provided for. Once again, he is well served by his houseboy, Cato, hiding in his apartment and leaping...
...drink King Kong cocktails made from grenadine, orange juice-and bourbon-from an ape-shaped Jim Beam bottle. For kids there will be stuffed monkeys in three sizes, board games, knee socks, T shirts, lunch boxes, chewing gum and a King Kong candy bar. Though most of this stuff will go on sale too late for Christmas, shopkeepers seem to be taking the news philosophically. After all, with Producer Dino de Laurentiis already at work on King Kong, Part II, the monkey business is likely to continue for some time...
...Smugglers of Lost Souls' Rock, as her paperback is titled, becomes Sally's new consolation and Gardner's new form of hyphen: a novel-within-a-novel. Set in boldface type, this parody-saga of marijuana smugglers-the stuff for which lurid covers on airport paperbacks are designed-runs to almost 150 pages and comes dangerously close to upstaging October Light. Among comic-strip characters in Sally's paperback are the smuggling boat skipper Captain Fist, who gets violently seasick even in San Francisco Bay; Jonathan Nit, an inventor who schemes to solve the energy shortage...
Richard Crowley, a bookseller in the Paperback Booksmith shop on Brattle Street, says that the store continues to sell "a lot of intellectual stuff, but the interest in political philosophy of a few years ago has disappeared...
...Harvard Bookstore has, apparently, never sold many books on leftist politics or social issues because, Hewet asserts, "the people interested in that kind of stuff usually steal their books...