Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dick Shawn and Joan Hackett are admirable foils. He paints the clown-husband character with broad vaudevillian brush strokes. She is a comic pointilliste, and her precise inflections of wifeliness dot the brain like a quiver of hatpins. Peterpat sometimes gets enveloped in the vapors of farce, but one deep breath of comic wisdom animates it-marriage is as funny as hell...
...arrives to say that F.D.R. suffered his attack of polio there, lightning flashes in the sky, grey horses standing in the pasture neigh with terror, and ominously choppy waters are shown in whipping rain. The narrator tells how Roosevelt, on the day he fell sick, became overheated fighting a brush fire, and the producers stage a brush fire to illustrate. F.D.R. later cooled off by taking a deeply chilling swim in the Bay of Fundy. The inference is that these imprudences were the primary cause of his disease. Some people may have thought so in 1921, but these days even...
...poverty-haunted New Deal politician pulse like an alternating current. He is overbearing to his aides, then suddenly overwhelmingly considerate; cynical about men's motives, yet sentimental enough to weep when a group of Texas Congressmen presented him with a laudatory plaque; incredibly thin-skinned, yet able to brush off some criticism with the comment, "My daddy told me that if you don't want to get shot at, stay oft the firing line." He prides himself on being a shrewd judge of men's strengths and failings; yet he was, at the very least, unperceptive enough...
Geiger described a midwives "training meeting: "First, there was inspection of bags, during which such unsuitable tools as nail files were removed. Then the "midwives' song" was sung to the tune of "This is the Way We Brush Our Teeth...
Through Prickly Pear. Moursund is an all-round man in the best Texas tradition. He controls a local bank. He can survey land, brand cattle, ride a horse through prickly pear cactus, steer his Lincoln Continental through cedar brush in pursuit of game, drop a deer with unerring aim, then gut and skin the animal. To the Judge ranching is more of a pleasure than a source of income. Explains an associate: "He gets a real kick out of manipulating cattle from one pasture to another." He also enjoys food in quantity. When he speaks of a "couple of hamburgers...