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Niven wouldn't get a laugh here: Myers has rendered himself invulnerable to the incinerating one-liners of prudes and sniggerers.
The Boston Globe 's Jay Carr hit Goldberg's habit of being her own best audience: "Goldberg spent too much time laughing at her one-liners (often, she laughed alone)."
Professor Norrick might be offended to find a review of his book so closely associated with what he might consider to be trivial, but he does expend a great deal of text describing the various forms of humor--sorry, I cannot resist the punctuation-- that come from one-liners and clichés (many of which, after all, are quotations).
Los Angeles Times TV critic Harold Rosenberg scored her "gratuitously coarse language and one-liners, and cheap political jokes."
An overtly negative review in the New York Times Book Review , by Courtney Weaver, calls the tone "self-consciously humorous"; says the wit at times "disintegrates into cutesy one-liners"; and complains that the stories are plagued by a "certain generic weariness."
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