Word: boob
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...from an arrogant altitude upon the lives of the absurd little people he has consented to consider. But the grotesquerie, more often than not, is magically imaginative, and the little people are accorded minute examination and archetypal significance-if not full human being. Joe Buck is a Job in boob boots...
...members of the Royal Knights of the Boob Tube, we wish to commend you on your excellent article concerning collegiate TV customs [March 26]. The accuracy and insight that the story displayed have quite sufficiently done justice to this hallowed institution of academic America...
Lonqest Logger. During most of the year, the boob tube is left to what Princeton calls "the viz squad. At the University of North Carolina they are "tubeholics," at Ohio State "TV majors " But the pros by any other nam are still the pros, and they log daily hours in front of TV that would make a union man scream for overtime pay; The leading contender for academe s top tubeman is the University of Texas Saleh Abdulrahman Athel, a studei from Saudi Arabia who started watching to learn English, then just stayed and stayed and stayed...
Republican President Abdullah Sallal, faced by recurrent Cabinet resignations and growing unrest, keeps running back and forth to Cairo for more help. Nasser gives it, but has reportedly called Sallal a "weak-minded boob." Yemen's Premier, General Hassan Amri, 48, a tough, no-nonsense operator, seems to be emerging as the new republican strongman...
Actually, Percy (Harry H. Corbett) seems entirely believable as a Lancashire bloke of almost invincible rectitude. For 39 years he has been a virgin, and that is the crux of this lacklusty comedy adapted from a London and Broadway play. The boob and the bawd (Diane Cilento, the gamekeeper's daughter of Tom Jones) meet, maunder, tell one another pathetic little lies, and slowly uncover their loneliness...