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...which made Bloomington laugh as hard as The Bronx. Jewish humor has penetrated strongly into print as well. How to Be a Jewish Mother became a big seller, bought by a lot of readers who were neither Jewish nor mothers. Still, beyond the simple shoulder-shrugging caricatures and the throwaway Yiddish, the Jewish experience is flavored with some sour salt. "Jewish humor is supposed to be warm and familiar," says Movie Critic Pauline Kael, "but there's a lot of hostility...
...grotesque phantasm of further mutilations follows. The Gnadiges Fraulein is a deaf ex-diva (Leighton) who loses one eye and then the other to the coca-loony birds of the Florida Keys, whom she battles for throwaway fish from incoming sloops. A cocaloony bird struts around on stage looking rather like a giant pelican with a Ph.D., and an Indian in a red, white and blue monokini war-whoops things up. The locale is "the Big Dormitory," and on the porch of this flophouse rock two marijuana-smoking harpies, a slatternly clown (Kate Reid), who runs the joint...
...happened right away," says Stanton. To make sure that other competition does not grow too strong, Field Enterprises has bought up a string of 13 suburban weeklies and a modern offset printing press on which the Day will initially be printed. Field will also distribute a shopper-a throwaway containing mostly ads-in order to soak up any additional advertising in Arlington Heights...
...York Timesman Russell Baker had another suggestion: "The Disposable Embassy." It is designed to be thrown away, said Baker. "It is in the great tradition of the obsolescent car, the zip-top beer can and the throwaway plate. Immediately after each stoning, looting or burning, the used embassy would be put in the trash and a fresh one installed in its place. The question is how to build into the Disposable Embassy enough destructive satisfaction to leave a typical Indonesian or Hungarian feeling that he had really done a good day's work against...
...like listening to lectures in an unfamiliar language or lining up at the box office for theater tickets and then not buying a seat. Since French literary inbreeding is both chronic and severe, it was inevitable that sooner or later someone would devote a whole book to Camus' throwaway idea. J.M.G. Le Clezio has in effect done just that, in a first novel that has unaccountably enraptured the French critics and public...