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...some of the evening's most comical moments and is especially funny in "You Gotta Get A Gimick." He leaps out on stage in a tuxedo and a red tasseled loincloth embroidered with gold. Lunging left and right, he quotes Shakespeare as he bumps and grinds to emphasize each couplet...
Frank Piegaro, sporting pipe, dark-rimmed glasses and an aura of klutziness, and the demurely attractive Marcia Mitzman, are well cast as the traditional innocent victims--the Denton, Ohio couplet of Brad "Asshole" Majors and Janet Weiss (as in "Vice...
...doggerel that a well-educated butler might compose. The most enduringly dreadful lines were penned by the spellbound and earnest Alfred Austin in the late 19th century. Austin, author of "Leszko the Bastard, a Tale of Polish Grief," auditioned for the laureate's post with a marvelously stupefying couplet on the illness of the Prince of Wales: "Across the wires the electric message came:/ 'He is no better. He is much the same.' " Occasional verse itself, poetry on demand, almost always leads to things like that. It would be difficult for any poet, laureate...
Cynics may shrug at doctrines of willful optimism. Still Americans have a right to be optimistic. After all, they are living longer and longer. Perhaps each new alarm should be couplet with a dire warning that life is likely to go on despite all the dangers...
This compelling couplet is a eulogy to Arthur James Cumnock, who captained and coached the Harvard football eleven that defeated Yale in 1890. It was a supreme gridiron effort, as the Elis had triumphed in every game from 1876 to 1889 and the Yale squad that year included immortals W.W. "Pudge" Heffelfinger and Lee McClung. In commemoration of Comnock's triumph, a plaque was erected in his honor on Soldiers Field -- hence Comnock Fields...