Word: crack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couldn't help laughing as I read "Mao à la Mode" [July 21]. No real Chinese looks that ridiculous. Even a coolie would crack up looking at those pictures. If I were wearing those stupid clothes, I'd be too embarrassed to leave my rice paddy...
...controversy might have been expected. When a crack newsman goes to work in a sensitive Government job, then returns to journalism covering the same area where he had served as an official, he will be accused of being his own source for scoops. Beecher concedes only that the Pentagon experience may have prepared him to "know the right questions to ask." His critics are unmoved, however, by his denials, claiming that he wrote several earlier stories for the Globe based on "inside access." Significantly, the only reaction from an Israeli official to Beecher's piece was a rather feeble...
...deny that he has performed far better than anyone had reason to expect. The child of Congress has become the political master of the White House. He is no intellectual, he is no innovator, but his candor, diligence and common sense have gained respect for his presidency. Few people crack jokes any more about his inability to chew gum and walk at the same time. Nor do they ask him, as a reporter did last fall, whether he is "intellectually up to the job of being the President." The Harris Poll, which showed him trailing Ted Kennedy...
...Doctorow writes, "a certain light was still available along the Eastern seaboard." Eccentrics still putter in their garages and produce inventions without the aid of research-and-development bureaucracies. Henry Ford's new assembly line and Albert Einstein's peculiar idea that the universe is curved crack the dawn of the modern age. Before long, Doctorow notes, painters in Paris will be putting two eyes on one side of the head...
Love and Death certainly isn't Allen's first crack at absurd humor. Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex was obviously less a parody of Allen than it was of sex. But there was something really unsophisticated, sort of junior-high-bathrooms-giggly about the idea of a humorous breast monster stalking the streets. While Allen is still chasing voluptuous young things--("Do you want some wine to put you in the mood?": "I've been in the mood since 1700")--his latest movie lacks that looking-for-the-dirty-part snickering. Rather, Love and Death finds him more...