Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway producer with a rubber leer, a big black Groucho Marx mustache and a tongue that can tirelessly slice baloney and burble ballyhoo about such Merrick productions as Look Back in Anger, La Plume de Ma Tante, Gypsy and Luther. To publicize his shows, Merrick with truly hippopotamic cheek has sent sandwich-board men into the streets of Manhattan encased in portable placarded pissoirs; persuaded President Johnson to accept the title tune of Hello, Dolly! (a Merrick show) as his campaign song; and conducted a hilarious war of words with the theater crit ics that recently came to a headline...
...whole scrivening lot a glorious razzberry: even before Subways Are for Sleeping received its predictable panning, Merrick collected seven men with the same names as the New York daily reviewers and sent them to previews of Subways. A week after the show opened, Merrick stuck tongue firmly in cheek and printed their names, their pictures and their reviews of the show (all raves) in a great big blat of a full-page ad. And in the course of a long guerrilla war against Howard Taubman of the Times, he pointedly reprinted one of Taubman's reviews in Greek and suggested...
Graham turned the other cheek. "I really do love Bob Jones Senior, and Junior too," he said...
...swipe of the racket can slice an opponent's cheek like a scythe; just getting in the way of the ball produces a rainbow-hued bruise that lasts for weeks. The dangers can be exaggerated; yet the strain, particularly on older players, can be considerable in a fast-moving game. "We had a siege of three heart attacks in one week not long ago," says Manhattan Adman Bob Lehman, an official of New York's Metropolitan Squash Racquets Association. "But you hardly ever see players drop dead on the court," he adds wryly. "Usually they do it after...
...pull of gravity could theoretically travel between Washington and Moscow, which are 4,850 surface miles apart, in the same time it would take them to travel from Washington to Boston, only 400 miles away. "One can envisage a transportation system without timetables," says Cooper, tongue in cheek, "with the world's cities linked by tunnels, the departure time universally on the hour, and the arrival time 42.2 minutes later...