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...Apartment. Billy Wilder oats uproariously sown by Jack Lemmon as a latter-day Alger hero who earns the key to the executive washroom by lending four philandering executives the key to his apartment...
...Apartment. Billy Wilder oats uproariously sown by Jack Lemmon as a latter-day Alger hero who earns the key to the executive washroom by lending four philandering executives the key to his apartment...
...mordant first novel. The Oldest Confession, he did a few handstands to attract attention, and the result was The Manchurian Candidate (TIME, July 6). an impressively comic but chaotic novel whose message-all is vanity and venality, and even the noblest of men knows not the way to the washroom-was not always audible over the author's sousaphone accompaniment. The present book appears to contain the same admonition, though this is by no means certain. The satirist's voice is heard, but the words are indistinct. Worse, the Katzenjammer that muffles it is not Condon...
...doubt is excusable, because, as the novel opens, Lincoln Lord has been out of a job for eight months, has moved from his suite to a single room in the Waldorf-Astoria, and cannot afford to keep their son in boarding school. He maintains face before the washroom attendant at the Greenbank Club, but his lunchroom tabs there are piling up like unshriven sins. The trouble is that restless Lincoln is a job jumper-he has headed four corporations in the past decade. Is he a phony? Lincoln Lord himself is not sufficiently introspective to consider the problem, and this...
...green bronze Song seemed about to chirp a childish "May I take your coat?" At one side of the powder room stood Nadelman's painted bronze Woman, attentive as a lady-in-waiting. At the other side arched Robus' rainbowlike, semi-abstract Woman Washing Her Hair. The washroom offered a brace of sporting dogs by Hunt Diederich, and in its paneled lounge stood Epstein's mournful, supplicating Hannah...