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...suspense is enjoyable but not nearly as pleasing as watching Tyler skim so stylishly over the surface of some decidedly troubled waters. There is a sitcom quality to much of what goes on in Ladder of Years, but Tyler mixes some bitter with the sweet and leaves the laugh track to the reader...
Amis willingness to laugh at himself, and at literature in general is one of the biggest strengths of the novel. Amis' gift became particularly important Wednesday night at Waterstone's. Desperate for an interview, I went to get my copy of The Information signed, forgetting that I had taken notes for my review on the dedication page. "Martin Amis is really (I had written absent-mindedly in the margin)...SHORT." Martin Amis read that little inscription as he signed my book. He smiled at me with his brand new, ten-thousand dollar teeth; but it was a British smile, revealing...
...some reason, The Harvard Lampoon thinks that 164 innocent people slaughtered is something to laugh about; that the fact that the deadly power of a few explosives can be unleashed by a few people is a joke...
...their attempt to fathom the bombers' motives, many Americans discovered just how deep the paranoia runs among a small minority of their countrymen. It was easy to laugh at the wackier notions, uttered by the most normal-looking people speaking in reasoned tones: Russian troops are hidden in salt mines under Detroit waiting for their orders, the U.N. has a secret plan to disarm the public with the help of L.A. gangs. What was less easy to dismiss were those Americans who realize Janet Reno is not a paid agent of Jewish Colombian drug lords but who nonetheless...
...jokes about his lack of vinous sophistication. During his last days in prison, he says, he was permitted to have visitors for relatively luxurious meals, and his warder once told him the best wines were dry. "I thought every wine was wet," Mandela says now with a laugh. Not long ago, some of the businessmen might have regarded their speaker as a dangerous revolutionary, but now they laugh...