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When Ronald Reagan introduced a similar device in his first State of the Union address in 1982--by inviting Lenny Skutnik, a government employee who dived into the Potomac to rescue a survivor of an airplane accident--it was a nice touch.
The scenes of Joy at work (wanting to do good, she crosses a picket line to take a job teaching English as a second language) are coarsely conceived, and the parents, Mona and Lenny, don't exist on the same level as the other characters.
The quotations are listed in rather haphazard order under these subcategories; authors (including rare attributions to the most popular, Anon.) are ascribed and, if they are dead, their dates are sometimes given (but none for Lenny Bruce, Sigmund Freud, Samuel Goldwyn, Groucho Marx, etc.); it is hard to understand the style.
DeLillo's epic of Cold War America--which juxtaposes Russia's atomic bomb with Bobby Thompson's Shot Heard Round the World, a Lenny Bruce concert, and a lost Sergei Eisenstein film--is pronounced a "masterwork" (Tom LeClair, the Atlantic Monthly ). DeLillo wins praise for his witty prose and inventive historical fiction, which includes such postwar celebrities as Frank Sinatra and J. Edgar Hoover.
Some 40 readers responded to the last "Good Word" column, on yadda yadda yadda . Two of them, Steve Gelmis and Martin Zacks, independently remembered the expression from a Lenny Bruce routine, which itself was a parody of dialogue in a prison movie.