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...common, besides a publisher named Dogwinkle? Well, there is sex, which the pun-loving Peter De Vries, 76, might call the great leveler. There are also the usual convoy of country-club dreadnoughts and assortment of foibles and venal sinning that go into the makings of De Vries' unusual comic novels. Peckham needs Poppy's financial support, and she yearns for his intellectual tutelage. What ensues is a zesty tale of patron and patronizer in which the student learns her lessons so well that she gains a highbrow reputation, while Peckham's next novel is thought to be derivative...
...Despite their difficulties, the Perelmans remained married for 40 years, until Laura's death in 1970. During that period, S.J. contributed to two of the wildest Marx Brothers films, Horse Feathers and Monkey Business, and he became lionized in Britain and the U.S. as the reigning master of the comic essay...
With the aid of all these ploys, the major comic publishers now anticipate profits that exceed those of the medium's golden age, the '40s. Income last year reached $75 million, and this year is expected to be significantly better. Money, in short, to make any superhero leap tall buildings for joy at a single bound...
None but the French have swum so easily in the rude and mysterious currents of American culture. They found philosophy in our comic strips, published our expatriate novelists, embraced Hollywood movies and dubbed their directors "auteurs." And when the pioneers of bebop pushed jazz away from melody and into the ionosphere of improvisation, French intellectuals were happy to welcome these black American outlaws to Paris after World War II. Bud Powell, the pathfinding bop pianist, settled there in the '50s, made friends and musical history and went a little crazy. Dexter Gordon, a crucial link in tenor-sax bop between...
...dream at all . . ." The Disgusting Colloquialism: "She drew in a great, hitching breath and hocked a remarkably large looey onto the top of his head." The Brand-Name Maneuver: "Here sits a man with Bass Weejuns on his feet and Calvin Klein underwear to cover his ass." The Comic-Strip Effect: "Whack-whack-whack-whack -- And suddenly it was in his hands, a great living thing that pumped and pulsed against his palms, pushing them back and forth. (nonononononono)." The Burlesque Locution: " 'Good ahfternyoon, deah lady,' Richie said in his best Baron Butthole Voice. 'I am in diah need...