This old bird is still peddling her bons mots to college students and appearing on television and in movies, most recently as a prune-faced judge in The Wolf of Wall Street. But she has written virtually nothing since this book and a follow-up made her a celebrity for a few years on either side of 1980. Reading the raves this collection received prompts some head-scratching. I guess the lesson is that wit, with very few exceptions, expires well before the author does.
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