Word: butts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...variation on local-news patter-"Angry Talk"-as he accuses Jerry Falwell's followers of having a sneaking fondness for dirty movies ("The next time I see one of them in a movie line I'm gonna put the majority of my foot up his moral butt"). Murphy can do creepily precise parodies of Bill Cosby, Stevie Wonder and the Mandinka-coiffed Mr. T. If venom rather than vinegar laced these creations, they would prove too toxic for the TV audience. But behind them is the impish good will of a little boy exercising his craft, cadging merrily...
...seems familiar to the rest of the country. Patches of its bright cityscape are on television all the time, and Woody Allen makes cracks about its well-muscled airheads. L.A. is to the rest of the U.S. as the U.S. is to Europe: both the butt of jokes and the object of envy, derided for its fast-buck vulgarity but secretly wished well just the same...
Initially, Berger's storyline seems to have been teased out of a W.C. Fields film like The Bank Dick. Hornbeck's Dolf Beeler, "a burly, beer-bellied foreman," enters Bud Bullard's Millville hardware store for a can of paint remover. The dead cigar butt in Beeler's mouth leads to an argument about smoking on premises stocked with flammable merchandise. The appearance of Bullard's cousin Reverton is a piece of unfortunate timing. Rev is a bitter geezer who lies about being a railroad detective and carries a starter pistol to intimidate his enemies...
...like to be told what to do. He was climbing into a cockpit, puffing on a cigar, when his flier reminded him that when they became airborne the cigar would be extremely dangerous. He scrambled down, flung the butt on the airstrip, and stamped on it. One evening in France he and [his secretary] Eddie Marsh were driving to his chateau in a Rolls-Royce. It was a trying journey, as Marsh described it in his diary: 'First a tyre burst with one of those loud bursts which make one think one has been assassinated-and then ... Winston gave...
...affectingly spare. His fictional victim is a little East European girl, born to be despised. Ugly and slow to learn, Tzili is neglected and abused by her large, impoverished Jewish family. In infancy she is left alone to play in the dirt outdoors. In childhood she becomes the butt of her Christian schoolmates. As the Nazis approach, Tzili is abandoned by her parents. She seeks shelter among the peasants in the district, claiming to be the daughter of the local Gentile whore. But if she is spared deportation as a Jew, she is execrated as one of the devil...