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...never shut up. In her first work of nonfiction, Novelist Alison Lurie contends that clothing even has a complete grammar, a complex syntax and a large vocabulary. The accent, however, is rarely standard English. In Lurie's view, our apparel often speaks in the spicy euphemisms of a stand-up comic or trumpets the dim promises of a politician. The author has previously parodied social-and sexual-intercourse in her novels (The War Between the Tates, The Nowhere City, Real People and Only Children) . In The Language of Clothes, she perceptively treats contemporary fashion as established parody. Paring...
Haster assumed his familiar stand-up, straightaway stance. Finnegan wound up and brought in a fastball, letter-high and inside. It was to be his first and only mistake of the game as Haster's blast sailed over the leftfielder's head and rolled down a hill to a neighboring set of practice fields...
...Lower East Side, the portly, cigar-chomping Golden gravitated to the South and in 1941 founded the Israelite, which in its 26 years of publication numbered Harry Truman, Earl Warren, Adlai Stevenson and Carl Sandburg among its readers. A typical satirical proposal: the Golden Vertical Negro Plan to install stand-up desks in public schools because Southerners seemed averse only to sitting, not standing, next to blacks...
Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige, 58, erstwhile Scovill Inc. executive and sometime rodeo steer roper, has given the nation a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the Reagan Cabinet. The Secretary's insights came in a stand-up monologue, "On the psychology of that jelly bean jar on the Cabinet table, " delivered at the National Press Club. Excerpts from Baldrige 's report...
...Babar plotters bought another ad, this one offering a club membership and a lavish brochure for $5. Troise, an auto mechanic in his mid-30s, composed a mimeographed, both-sides-of-one-page exhortation titled "Lavish Brochure." At one time Glanting, 30, had a little success as a stand-up comic in clubs around San Francisco. Now he works for a coffee company. But he did the spoken interviews that were beginning to be requested by a few radio stations...