Word: cavil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really gotta learn how to stop just before Doc Severinson and the NBC Orchestra start playing "Tea for Two." And you don't recover by screaming out "Oxnard! Oxnard! Oxnard!" in a crowded theater until you're blue in the face, either. So my only cavil is with 14 scenes--at least seven too many, and each one of those remaining about four puns too long...
...anyway, Tony reads last week's column, right, (which, I might preface this week's column by saying, was brilliant, and, if not brilliant, at least it was art, and you don't cavil with art), and he comes up to me this week during the ritual "doling out of magazine space," he comes up to me, and he says to me, "Vomit. People like Harry's column and they think your thing is vomit...
Well, I happen to know of about six or seven people out there who think my column isn't vomit, although I think it is vomit, but artistic vomit, and you don't cavil with artistic vomit. (Vomit for art's sake, you know...
Suggestions: Read the Real Paper Read Crawdaddy. Read Rolling Stone. Read Harry's column. Don't cavil with art. Lay off, OK? Later. Another Pseudonym for Rich
...scenario: unattached, eccentric adults involved in a quixotic caper because of their love for animals. William himself realizes that the turtle heist is "the sort of situation that would be ever so charming and human in a film with Peter Ustinov and Maggie Smith." But he has a significant cavil: "That sort of film is only charming because they leave out so many details, and real life is all the details they leave...