Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Called Henry. In Mold, Wales, the Rev. Henry Rees flunked the driving-license test for the fifth time, and, according to later court testimony, vengefully struck the examiner with a car-door handle, tried to butt him in the face, kicked at his legs, cried: "I'll bloody well shoot you," paid a ?5 ($14) fine...
...long, cast him and Imogene as a pair of chronic not-marrieds who were flung at each other by well-meaning friends; the other, too short, was a spoof on the current rash of TV shows built around singers on stools. Taking Frank Sinatra as his chief butt, Caesar prattled: "The whole show is live except me. I'm on film. And now from my latest album, Songs to Make Money By, here's a swingin' tune, Love Is a Gasser." By coincidence, ABC's Sinatra was appearing against Caesar as a guest...
George snapped a carrot-stick in two. "We are the generation of tranquilizers and mushroom clouds, grunion hunters and men's magazines. We are born, we go to college, and then what? In the age of surrealistic art, in the butt-end semantics of Joyce and the discordant lilt of Stravinsky we are somehow yet conservative. We stand marking time, unimpressed, hands skin-deep in mental hip pockets...
...theme, that vengeance is God's business, not man's. The book's best tale is the title story about Gimpel. who has seven names in all: 'Imbecile, donkey, flax-head, dope, glump, ninny and fool. The last name stuck." Gimpel the Fool is the butt of all cruel, mindless jokesters. He will believe anything: that the dead have arisen, that the Czar is visiting Frampol, even that his wife is faithful. In the first place, he believes because, after all, anything is possible. In the second place, he believes because if he does not, everyone...
...being royally had and is only saved by his bird-brained wife (Phyllis Love)-the plot is a staple of artificial comedy and farce. But here the tricks and artifices are applied, with considerable loss in credibility, to something serious and real. Moreover, as anything but a purely comic butt, the professor seems just a little too wet behind the ears and behind the times...