Word: doggerel
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...editor will tell you, these are the doggerel days. Something about - this buoyant season raises journalists to heights of low comedy. Humor in verse and prose streams out of typewriters, the idea being to get at least some of it into print. These attempts rarely succeed. But in the holiday spirit, I felt that a few such offerings should be shared with our readers...
...MUHAMMAD declared the billboards in Houston. The come-on was as flabby as the contenders. Muhammad Ali, the walking billboard, was so uninterested in his twelve-round bout with bulky (256 Ibs.) Buster Mathis that he trained seriously only for nine days. Ali divested himself of a bit of doggerel ("I'll do to Buster what the Indians did to Custer"), but his heart was clearly not in it. Buster, whose last fight was a humbling loss to Jerry Quarry in 1969, was out to prove that "I'm no dog." As expected, when the Mountain finally came...
With that realization Millhouse rightly drops any further attempts to "understand" Nixon, focusing instead on the destructive obtuseness of his style. A Thanksgiving celebration at the White House is shown as Richard blithely asks Julie to invoke a doggerel grace for a captive audience of the aged and poor. Their faces watch the proceedings with a resigned air of confusion and incomprehension. Nixon then proceeds to lie about improvements in the economy...
Clay knocked out twelve of his first 15 opponents. Then, in a moment of inspiration, for his next match with Archie Moore he unburdened himself of a little doggerel...
...time New York critics waxed nostalgic for the DeMille days of yore. (Gary Arnold, in the now defunct Diplomat, recognized the great irony: Huston and DeMille were the legitimate and bastard heirs to Griffith's narrative film style. Huston translated it into lean, expressive prose, DeMille into doggerel,) Such creditable films as Reflections in a Golden Eve or A Walk with Love and Death are ignored altogether...