Word: agelessness
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Here are Peter Arno's ageless chorines and satyrs; Helen Hokinson's gaggle of club women; Saul Steinberg's pun-and-ink illuminations; the Thurber people who always reminded Dorothy Parker of unbaked cookies. Here, too, is the ir repressible new generation of arche types: George Booth's slatternly couples-obviously the illegitimate descendants of George Price's cluttered screwballs; Lee Lorenz' literate animals, minerals and vegetables; and Ed Koren's celebrated shaggy people stories...
...BALTIMORE--With the brilliance of Three Stooges re-runs, the star-laden Orioles will repeat in the Eastern Division. Pitching aces Jim Palmer and Mike Cuellar lead the pitching corps, while ageless Brooks Robinson and Paul Blair lead a well-balanced roster...
...Will Rogers, comedy seems to follow the same trope that holds for religion--it invariably moves from east to west. New York comics hit the big time and move west to Hollywood, British humor sweeps westward across the Atlantic to the East Coast. Since the Second World War this ageless migration has been performed by Peter Sellers, Beyond the Fringe and most recently, Monty Python's Flying Circus...
...Francisco, the Magic Cellar has an answer to Dai Vernon: "Paris," a five-year-old magician with an ageless routine...
Circus tells a tale that could happen only in America. A circus, under the direction of an apparently ageless Chinese named Dr. Lao, arrives one day in the town of Abalone, Ariz., and delivers delights that even Barnum would have hedged at promising. "The world is my idea," says Dr. Lao. "As such I present it to you." The circus, a metaphor for his world, is half dream, half nightmare. In its sideshow tents a puritanical schoolteacher is seduced by a syrinx-playing satyr, a gorgon turns an unbelieving harridan into "carnelian chalcedony," one of the harder varieties of building...