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...spring of my senior year in front of a television." Christopher Lasch, a University of Rochester historian and author, adds that the only time he could remember so many people watching television was during the 1951 World Series. Updike says, "We were outraged and amused by this kind of buffoon. Nixon seemed that way too. From the safety of Harvard, it looked like an aberration in American politics--a subject in which we had little interest." McCarthy's threat to Harvard began to disappear as the Class of '54 was leaving. Concerns of the student body returned to subjects from...
...abundance of talent in the supporting cast cannot make up for a weak Macheath or Jenny. Morton Pierce stands out as the eminently bribable police chief, a bald-headed buffoon; so does Kathryn Falk as Lucy Brown, his daughter and Macheath's other wife. Falk's delivery of the pathetic "Barbara Song" was the best number of the evening. In most productions this is Polly's lament; I suppose Lucy took this one on after Polly got "Pirate Jenny." Playing a game of musical numbers like this may match singers up with the songs they can perform, but it also...
...long time the picture of J.P. Morgan with the midget on his knee was the Washington view of capitalism-a bloated buffoon. John Kennedy once described a small-town banker as a man with shoes that were too tight, the pain from below traveling up to his face. Only a couple of years ago, Senator Henry Jackson lined up seven big oil executives as though they were schoolboys, and denounced them for their big profits in the oil crunch...
...Street career, Oakie joined the chorus of George M. Cohan's Little Nellie Kelly in 1922 and, after several years on the vaudeville circuit, went to Hollywood, where his waggish ways and round, jovial face won him more than a hundred supporting roles. Playing a happy-go-lucky buffoon, he worked in such films as Million Dollar Legs with W.C. Fields, The Affairs of Annabel with Lucille Ball and Tin Pan Alley with Alice Faye. A consummate ogler, Oakie could steal a scene by simply looking at a girl's legs...
...Wilder, like many artists who become too wrapped up in their own films, does not realize when he carries a good thing too far. For example, he hardly passes up an opportunity to clown, and as a result, he often comes off as a buffoon. Most of the puns and cheap sight gags are of dubious comic value, and the fragile thread of humor which supports them eventually breaks when it is stretched to a ridiculous length. In one scene, the train Wilder is on jolts, and Wilder's sleeping wife is thrown to the seat opposite...