Word: wallows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Simon has slipped into the most tempting and dangerous situation for a successful writer: sticking with his old and reliable topics. His career has been built upon an insightful and humorous look at the oddities of American families and relationships, and this has become a comfortable niche to wallow in After a while, however, it makes for a rather boring and insipid film experience...
...fallen world: "It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum, and here they will break out in their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven; then the mad fit returns and they mope and wallow like dogs...
Thus, I had no good excuse for beginning my search for part-time employment last summer in the industrial wasteland of Detroit by culling want ads in June. Having blown the chance to wallow in opportunities offered by Harvard's precious career services office, I began sifting through offers at the Fuller Brush Company and several short-order establishments. Then something caught my eye: "Opening for lively, articulate people to sell Time-Life book series by phone...
...kitsch of the season is Dime-Store Days (Penguin; 128 pages; $12.95) by Lester Glassner and Brownie Harris. Lovingly assembled by a five-and-ten freak and movie junkie, this compendium of glittering gimcracks from the '30s and '40s provides a deep wallow in nostalgia. Among the glories of Woolworthlessness are cutouts of Carmen Miranda with the plaster-banana wall plaques she inspired, a Charlie McCarthy paper doll "with movable mouth," and a lurid World War II poster of a starlet straddling a bomb inscribed TOKYO EXPRESS...
...wallow in me!" trumpets Harris, and he does indeed: he wades hippo-deep through the rank mud of his loopy monologues. The generously muscled O'Keeffe utters not an intelligible word-only Tarzan's patented bull-elephant yodel. As for Bo's acting, she sucks in her stomach to look pretty and chews her cuticles to suggest fear. Alas, all the displays of Bo's body cannot divert attention from the ludicrous ineptness of the enterprise. Nothing breaks a tumid erotic spell faster than giggling...