Books

December, 1980

Side Effects (Random House) is a collection of short humor pieces by Woody Allen, famous film maker and wiseacre. The pieces originally appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic and The Kenyon Review--and they show it. There are the typical time-space-reality jokes: "Man was a creature doomed to exist in 'time,' even though that was not where the action was." Or, "Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak." Or, "According to mo...