Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rewritten by a demon." The author's tone has mellowed, however. As Mrs. Trollope, the only character who manages to free herself from the bondage of the bankbook, observes, "People suffer and we call them names; but all the time they are suffering. I know I am not clever: it's partly because I cannot believe that life is meant to be ugly...
...strong and canny, with an edge of sadness and a real, rough dignity. One of the major surprises is Candice Bergen as Mrs. Pedecaris. Never the most comfortable of actresses, Bergen quickly falls in with the movie's congenial braggadocio and gives a performance that is wry and clever. She may not be quite the sort of woman for whom, as the ads say, "half the world may go to war," but she is good for at least a couple of hand-to-hand combats...
...gules argent" and "bars sinister" are heraldic impossibilities; Nixon is called many other things in the book apart from "controversial"; there are at least twelve Kings in the book (see the "Royal Descents" in the appendices) apart from President Ford's father, so that joke is not so clever; and, above all, our books are scholarly records of social history, not "snob's bibles." If you do not believe this, try reading one-without prejudice. You will be surprised. Indeed, your flabber will never have been so gasted...
...records, and even printed in books (incidentally, these books--Monty Python's Big Red Book and Papperbok--are not abysmal but contain only a few new things, and these items are really only likely to amuse diehard admirers). It's clear now that Monty Python is not more consistently clever than any other comedians. If only Time magazine and the other media currently hyping the group would let us, the decent thing to do would be to forget that bloody turkeys like Monty Python and the Holy Grail were ever made...
...poem, a bitter satire on the suppression in Irish newspapers of a Vatican study on dangers for missionaries in the remoter regions of the world, there are glimpses of an extremely clever man who must hide in too narrow topics: These scholars are modestly selective, Who say our nuns in Africa, Fearful of blackmen yelling 'Ya!', Tearing off starches, heavy drape, Can take an oral contraceptive, An hour or two before the rape, How will they know dread time or place. That leaves the soul still full of grace? Better to wear Dutch cap or wad And after their debauching...