Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brawling, bawdy, inaccurate picture of Restoration England, and of a heroine busy from bedroom to bedroom. Naturally, the play-by-play accounts are a bit loss lucid and even the two-and-a-half hour running time doesn't permit inclusion of more than a token few of the endless assortment of husbands&lovers&pregnancies&such. But what you have left is still far more than enough...
Tall Tex Furse was the beginning of those. Running out of T with endless variations, Quarterback Furse threw where the opponents were not but his receiver precisely was. Time after time one end would line up as a wide right flanker, the back in motion would dart out to the left, and the other end would get the ball hard in the middle of his stomach ten yards in front of the center. After that began to bore, Furse lateraled to one of the flankers for a little variety...
Furse was the key of the attack on all fronts. He called his plays like a machine, rolling them out in an endless variety based on a few simple propositions. With himself as the continuous passing threat, Furse could hurl to a flanker, flip a Harmon lateral to the wing or tallback, hand off to Nadherny, or--and this is his most devasting weapon--leap in the air after a count of one or two or three and explode the ball over the center of the line...
...Subservience before the boss is a talent of statesmanship which Harry Truman mastered to perfection. Endless readiness to serve his Wall Street master-this is what finally took the small Missourian to the White House. . . . Let Vandenberg, Byrnes, Dulles, Hoover manager him, and let Clark Clifford . . . write his speeches for him. Let Truman only read them tolerably well. Thus Harry Truman has become the clerk of American imperialism. . . . He no longer says, as formerly, that he never takes political decisions without consulting his wife. He knows now with whom to consult! . . . In his squeaky voice already is heard the sound...
Described as "America's most precious lunatic" by ordinarily venomous critics, Perelman occupies his own peculiar niche among top-ranking humorists. His biting, savoury style, bolstered by an endless supply of weird adjectives, signals a rocking belly laugh among even the most profound readers. For this adulation Perelman depends upon a speedy change of pace in the sequence of stories, the ridiculous image, and a willingness to play the fool for the benefit of his audience...