Word: balking
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...London pub in 1969 that John Cleese and Graham Chapman, gagwriters for the Frost Report, teamed up with Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Eric Idle, similarly disaffected writers from Britain's then booming satire business. They decided to start their own program. The BBC did not balk when told that the show would be "anarchic and free." Recalls Cleese: "They thought they were getting another latenight satire show. It wasn't that at all." Constantly testing sketches on one another, the Pythons were bent on turning English literary and verbal humor into a series of sight gags. They...
...through negotiations with the Communists. The pressure to extricate the Americans would ease considerably if the two sides worked out a political settlement, though that would almost surely require Thieu's resignation as a first step. For Vietnamese refugees, matters would still be difficult. The Communists might well balk at the departure of South Vietnamese nationals and could try to prevent it. But there is also a hope that Hanoi, sensitive to world opinion, would allow some Vietnamese to escape as part of a final political settlement...
Agee would probably not condone his imitator's work, inspired as it seems to be by a new resurgence in Agee's popularity and only partially a genuine at compassionate interest in its subject. He would probably also balk at Remembering James Agee, self-indulgent in its length and in its profound sentimentality. His famous men and women were not well-known figures to be dealt with as he said, "journalists, sociologist, politicians, entertainers, humanitarians, priests, or artists" would deal with them, but seriously...
Many of the pieces in this exhibit were made at the artists' whim, outside of class, and the collection is lively and multiform. Occasionally someone seems to balk at imagination, although nobody is short on skill, and these pieces smack of exercises. A deftly penciled sketch in one corner, for example, depicts a male nude from the rear, familiarly postured with one hand on his hip and his body's weight shifted to one foot. A canvas in variegated blue with purplish undertones, of a bedroom swathed in yellow light, reflects the dappled brush-work and impressionistic style of Monet...
...woman to change her name through the courts. Cases are pending to determine whether married women can vote under their birth names (in Minnesota) and obtain drivers' licenses (in Kentucky). Airlines are often reluctant to grant family fares to couples traveling under different names; banks at times balk at issuing joint accounts to husbands and wives who have separate names. In one case, a bank officer suggested that the couple choose a third, corporate name. They did: "Love Collaborators...