Word: bridgeworked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guard for Boston College in the late '40's. This last one held some promise, perhaps a quote that would bolster the ready-mixed comparison between two politicians bred in the offensive line. Just like Gerry Ford, right? The college buddy smiled, advertising a splendid monument of gold bridgework, and then began to chuckle. "Hell, no. Eddie played dirty, pal. He didn't screw around...
...program includes: 50 mile forced nature walks; The weekly oral treasure hunt--gold fillings, silver bridgework; Arts and Crafts: lampshades are our speciality; Tatoos: every kid wants one; Scientific experiment kits, so they can perform the experiments they learn from...
...book that deep-sixes its protagonists by the halfway point is a sweatingly exuberant cast. Doing his annual turn as a blonde-coiffed mountain is the estimable Bob Peabody, whose delicate elephant walk and open-mouthed grin (in which a Sopwith Camel could do circus loops without destroying the bridgework) remind one of a cross between Everest and Margaret Dumont. He is a natural wonder and a natural comedian. Mark Szpak's slithering, thrilling Juana deBoise puts him in a class with Lupe Velez and Luis Tiant--all unintelligible delights. David Levi as Sonya Vabitsche looks like a very funny...
Scheer and Rankin's historic bridgework is as skilled as their choice of quotations. Recollected events and human voices carry the reader from the first shots (and words) at Lexington in 1775 to a chorus-like finale at Yorktown. Flashes of humor and high spirits lighten the hardships along the way. Washington (on inflation): "A rat in the shape of a horse is not to be found at this time for less than ?200." A very young officer to his wife, after the battle of Princeton: "Oh, my Susan! It was a glorious day and I would not have...
...author as a gentle practitioner of the short-haired shaggy-dog story. Most of them should be read as experiments rather than as polished pieces of comic ingenuity. One essay, for example, "If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists," imagines that Vincent Van Gogh is a dentist obsessed with bridgework and X rays as art for art's sake...