Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nichols' and May's. But it is not safe to smile comfortably as the actors poke fun at Freud, advertising or the CIA. Feiffer's models are the very sort of people who think it is fashionable (the in word is "in") to dig Feiffer, and often the audience is laughing uncomfortably at itself...
...boys are furious. War, real grownup war at last, not five kilometers away, and here they sit like schoolboys playing bang-you're-dead at the edge of their own home town. They dig in to defend the bridge, and suddenly the Americans are upon them. The last hour of the film is pure Schreck, a minutely observed, almost unwatchable massacre of the innocents...
...first problem is the improvement of basic techniques for eliminating illiteracy, and the second is the elimination of mechanical illiteracy" among people at the educational level of "pre-Roman Anglo-Saxons," Bruner noted. He cited the importance of teaching the natives show to read a diagram and dig a ditch" in the overall picture of the development of the country...
...Jerusalem last week, Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion, temporarily ignoring the Eichmann trial, ordered out his scientific troops for a major assault on Biblical history. Find Israel's first army for me, he told an assembly of his country's leading archaeologists. Dig up the remains of Abraham's band of 318 men who pulled off a nighttime pincer attack at Dan and freed Abraham's nephew Lot from Chedorlaomer, King of the Elamites (Genesis...
...however, Parisians have obstinately refused to dig one aspect of Gleason's traveling circus: its title. Gigot was suggested by U.S. Crooner Andy Russell, a friend of Gleason who speaks restaurant French, when Jackie asked what one might call "a poor soul who just sort of lambs around." The trouble is that Russell was too literal-minded; gigot means merely "leg of mutton," and bilingual Frenchmen are wondering in some puzzlement whether Americans would laugh if Tati, for instance, made a movie in the U.S. and called himself "Rolled Rib Roast...