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While there are a great deal of blond jokes, the bland, er, blonde girlfriend of Chazz is unbelievably dumb and random. I wish I could find the best example of her stupidity, but she is consistently dumb throughout the movie...
...first published in the U.S. after the author's arrival, is his best-known satirical howl against Soviet oppression and conformity. Aksyonov has published other books in exile, but now, after a decade of personal and artistic freedom, he has written one for the American market. Generations of Winter (Random House; 592 pages; $25) will probably draw comparisons to War and Peace and Dr. Zhivago. In fact, Aksyonov has assembled a clumsy reproduction of a romantic Russian family saga, erratically decorated with historical murals, folklore, fantasy and B-movie dialogue...
Christopher Buckley, the son of William F. Buckley Jr., has had some good breaks during his lifetime, but how lucky can you get? Thank You for Smoking (Random House; 272 pages; $22), the hotfoot Buckley has given the tobacco industry, went on sale at the same time as a nationally televised congressional hearing was making American cigarette makers look like drug dealers...
...Instead of sending us back a response thatwould have offered clear recommendations, [Vance,]without offering serious arguments, proceeded towrite a letter to me full of random insults andattacks," Eaton said...
Some people might be bothered by a sense that there is no carefully scripted plot driving the action forward. If they're patient, though, they might just realize that all the seemingly random gags are precisely planned, and that the entire show is a tight cycle following a bizarre internal logic...