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Most Texans blame sheer envy for the fact that in recent years Texas has come to rank well ahead of mothers-in-law as a butt for U.S. humorists. Last week in the Dallas News wry Columnist Paul Crume offered another explanation: "Texas is the only thing left in the U.S. strong enough to stand being laughed...
...Your Butt. On the third day the winds were even worse. Scores soared like kites. Venturi finished the first nine in a dreadful 40. "There he blows!" murmured a spectator, and most of the crowd agreed. Then Middlecoff went out in a brisk 35 to take the lead. Venturi murmured to himself: "Boy, you've got to get off your butt and go." Result of the new "go": he shot three successive birdies (the 13th through 18th) and came home through the back nine in 35. Middlecoff, meanwhile, ran into poor luck. His eyes were swollen from hay fever...
...filled with what really is or had a taste of pure and abiding pleasure. Like brute beasts, they look ever downwards, and feed stooping over the ground and poking their noses into their tables, cropping and coupling; and to get more and more of these things they kick and butt with iron horns and hooves and kill one another because of their insatiate desire, since they fail either to satisfy with real things the real part of themselves, or to fill up that vessel, their body...
...first half of the comedy, most of the humor is at the expense of the Jew, Shylock, whom the poet conceived as a grasping, vengeful figure intent on exacting his pound of flesh from the Merchant. But director Richard Smithies has wisely chosen not to make Shylock the butt of all the jokes, even though he succeeds only partially in finding funny material elsewhere in the play...
...angry mood at Tewkesbury," and wooing her with cold precision and success even as she kneels by her husband's corpse. He plots his brother (Gielgud) into the king's disgrace, and has him murdered in the Tower-drowned, as a matter of gruesome legend, in a butt of malmsey wine. And while he waits for the aging king (Hardwicke) to die "and leave the world for me to bustle in," the "bottled spider" can teasingly tongue-tie the opposing faction ("Cannot a plain man live?") and make a lot of pious tut and pother ("I thank...