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Thread #96508 Message #1888656
Posted By: Joe_F
19-Nov-06 - 09:16 PM
Thread Name: Tom Lehrer: Tomfoolery in Oz
Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer: Tomfoolery in Oz
Reviews quoted on the jacket of _An Evening Wasted..._:
"More desperate than amusing" (New York Herald Tribune)
"He seldom has any point to make except obvious ones" (Christian Science Monitor)
"Mr. Lehrer's muse [is] not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste" (New York Times)
"Vulgarity" (Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph)
"Obvious, jejune, and remarkably unsophisticated" (London Evening Standard)
"Plays the piano acceptably" (Oakland Tribune)
He has already outlasted two of those newspapers.