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...similar sort of success may await Some Can Whistle, McMurtry's 13th novel. If so, that will be a redemption of sorts for an uncharacteristical ly spotty performance between hard covers. Plot has given way to concocted situations, conversation displaced by laugh-track dialogue. Everything and everyone in the tale reeks of Hollywood, particularly the narrator...
...running for class president. True, the campaign is launched as a joke by cruel classmates, but Corky turns it into a rousing, and rather implausible, plea for the handicapped. "We have a life, we have dreams, we have hopes," runs his big speech at a school assembly. "We laugh and cry, just like you. All we want is a chance to be your friend." Result: a standing ovation and a narrow loss by 47 votes. Says Corky: "That's a lot of friends...
...woman nods, getting the point, laughing. Her classmates laugh, and Braden joins in. Laughter, in fact, is an essential part of the curriculum at the tennis college, where every year several thousand adults take three-to- five-day courses that cost $100 daily. It erupts regularly from the classroom during Braden's unique lectures, which combine show biz, science, humor and psychology. It rings out on the 17 courts and the 18 teaching lanes equipped with ball machines -- and in the four video rooms, where students guffaw as they view tapes of their own just completed drills. Even...
This weekend the Immediate Gratification Players, one of the College's two stand-up, improvisation groups, opens the Loeb Experimental Theater with a comedy show. If you're ready for some crudeness, rudeness, silliness or just a good laugh, head for the theater on Brattle Street this weekend...
This small oversight is merely indicative of Mockler's, and Gillette's, real feelings about democracy and egalitarianism. When John W. Symons, Gillette's North Atlantic president, boasts "We have the potential of being the greatest male toiletry business in the world" it's hard not to laugh at the absurdity of his dreams of power...