Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MONTY PYTHON'S BRAND of humor always seemed peculiarly suited to the ear, not the eye. The ridiculous inflections of the members' voices, the bizarre intellectual and literary allusions, the often crude, even downright scatological sounds captured on record--all these ingredients first sold me on Monty Python several years ago. Indeed, I credit the comedy troupe's Monty Python's Previous Record with having taught me the true, wrenched-gut meaning of a guffaw. The divine mission to convert friends to the joys of these whacked-out Britons soon followed this revelation; I had heard the true sound...
...troupe does not seem to be above replacing the humorous with the merely offensive. At one point, one of the male Monty Python members comes out on stage tackily dressed in a gold lame evening gown with cat's-eye spectacles. Adopting a feminine-sounding falsetto, he strikes up a paean to the virtues of Britishers: "The English have a quality/I'd like to sing about/It's not the sort of quality/That's bestowed on wog or kraut...
...modern nation is exhaustively examining one of its chief weapons of defense for all the world to see?including its adversaries. Yet this unprecedented exposure of the Central Intelligence Agency is perhaps the inevitable result of attacks on a vast bureaucracy that operated too long out of the public eye. America's premier defense agency has been under intense fire both at home and abroad for violating what many critics felt were proper standards of international conduct...
...agents directed the killing of Viet Cong terrorists. In Chile, the CIA gave money and other help to opponents of Marxist Salvador Allende. But there is no evidence connecting the CIA to the coup that overthrew and killed Allende in 1973, though the episode gave the U.S. a black eye. The CIA'S surveillance of American citizens was grossly exaggerated by much of the press. One clear abuse by the agency, which it apparently carried out totally on its own initiative, was experimenting with LSD and other drugs on unwitting victims...
...wrong to say that the scripts are no longer being written for women," says Actress Catherine Deneuve, who is all fired up about her new role in the French thriller Listen Here. She plays a Bogart-like private eye who has gun, will travel. Her employer: a mysterious baron who has developed radio waves that can paralyze a whole town. Deneuve learned from the French flics how to shoot a revolver. She took to it quickly. Says she: "It's as exciting as a road show...