Word: custard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short-haired fellow with a kumquat nose, a moron-the-merrier expression, a crushed stovepipe hat, buttoned collar and huge bow tie. His métier is sick slapstick. He gets laughs by biting off a neighbor's hangnail or hitting an old lady with a custard pie-not in the face, but up under her arm, as if the pie were a small bucket...
Then Mr. Ben tossed his crowning achievement, a trifle of black feathers, lace, rhinestones and a soupçon of warmed-over custard. Two ladies clawed away for life. "Ladies, please," begged Mr. Ben, rounding off his numbers, "that is a $475 hat." The littler lady finally let go, holding back her tears...
...with Caroline Kennedy, then 2½, in Hyannisport last summer. "A true Kennedy," Reporter Chamberlin discovered, "she likes to test your mettle by setting you some impossible challenge, then sitting back to watch you disentangle yourself. In any case, she put me in charge of a fast-melting frozen custard while she went to find one of her kittens. I got frozen custard on the rug, in my shoes, on the dog, on the front door and part of the terrace before I was rescued. Now, when I see her, Caroline gives me that look you get from people...
...placards on lampposts, ripping down the posters of the other side. The English-language papers openly plugged the anti-republican side, just as Afrikaner editors gave the headlines to government workers who were urging the electorate to vote Ja. One excited anti-republic housewife out shopping heaved a custard pie into the face of a jeering Nationalist...
...Painter (Litfle Movies), an extremely funny 15-minute film, may be taken as a solemn leg-pull of the recent vogue for dribble-and-splotch painters, those athletic canvas-coverers whose style owes less to Van Gogh's brush technique than to Stan Laurel's custard pie stance. Or it may be taken as an explicit set of instructions for getting rich...