Word: entertain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years older than Carroll, Kretchmer seems of another generation-lithe, clean-shaven and as elegantly tailored as the men in the Playboy clothing ads. "The magazine has grown up," said he. "We have a serious concern for the way the country is going, and a concern that we also entertain ourselves." Thus Playboy's August issue contains an uninhibited color act on the joys of sexual intercourse, and September's features a long section on the drug problem...
Most of the comedy stays at this slapdash level. Raquel Welch, looking as ever like a performer hired to entertain visiting conventioneers, plays a policewoman assigned to bag a rapist who is prowling the parks. There is a dizzying number of other subplots, most of which revolve clumsily around the 87th's efforts to bring to justice a sinister saboteur (Yul Brynner) who threatens to extinguish the mayor...
...believe that "Good News, Bad News" jokes derived from a group game we called "Yay! Boo!" which was played at high school and college parties in the '40s and '50s. For example: "This is your social chairman speaking. Tonight we have invited some ladies over to entertain us (Yay!). However, they will be completely dressed (Boo!)... in cellophane...
Rarely do he and Alma entertain, and just as rarely do they allow themselves to be entertained. Bedtime, in fact, is a spartan 9 o'clock; he gets up at 7, and when he is between pictures is usually in his office at Universal Studios in Los Angeles by 10, poring over scripts, stories and reports of juicy murders in the London papers...
...subordinate to their dialogue with listeners. Others, like Don Imus of New York City's WNBC, subordinate even the dialogue to their own versions of zany nightclub comedy. Chicago's Larry ("the Legend") Johnson has made a success out of calling odd people or faraway places to entertain his estimated 120,000 weekly listeners on station WIND. What's the weather like in Miami? Larry the Lege will call the Miami weather bureau and find out. Do the papers say that Princess Margaret is taking a salary cut? Call Buckingham Palace...