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Glue Poisoning. In format, Joan Rivers owes much to the likes of Shelley Berman and Woody Allen, but her style and material, to say nothing of her femininity, make her something special. Snapping out her lines, bobbing and weaving around the stage like a pug in the last throes of brain damage, she is an unindexed handbook on how to be neurotic about practically everything...
...format, Family is like every other O'Connor book. The scene is a place very much like Boston and the Irish-Catholic community-bounded by faith, politics and new money-that O'Connor has explored so often before. On his trip, however, he has no clear idea where he wants to go, except that his :amily should resemble the Kennedy clan only in the most superficial aspects. The book drifts in two unsynchronized directions. One leads past Jimmy Kinsella, a second-generation Irish Croesus who has prodded his youngest son Charles into the Governor's mansion...
...since its birth in 1885, has always been pretty much a family affair. Among other things, three successive presidents have been relatives of Founder Louis Latzer, who died in 1924. Last week Pet broke the familial format, named as its president Gordon Ellis, 51, a onetime grocery clerk who, as vice president in charge of operations, helped raise this year's sales to $423,271,000. Still, Ellis will have three Latzer relatives on his top-level corporate team...
...smoky jargon, ends with the distressing thought that nonviolence, man, will get you nowhere. Playing a born loser who digs the lesson too late, Davis at best displays his own brash will to win and fires suspicion that a coherent statement about inequality cannot be fitted comfortably into the format of a headline entertainer's syrupy one-man show...
What is needed, then, is a new format. For the pyramid style, Reston would substitute a "case study outline" that starts with an unbiased statement of the relevant facts. The facts are followed by a series of "definitions" of alternative courses of action which the government might follow, along with arguments for and against each policy. The advantage of this format, according to Reston, is that it allows people to make a choice instead of simply receiving a deluge of facts, both important and trivial...