Word: foist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, the Lampoon should reconsider retiring the "Tedium is the Medium" citation when Tim Hunter (two-time winner for the worst students film) "graduates." The award is part of a great tradition and will prove increasingly relevant in future years as youth continues to foist the fruit of its Bolexes and Bell-and-Howells on an affluent and unsuspecting public. Hunter, an irritatingly egocentric critic and an excessive film-maker, can nonetheless sleep secure in the knowledge that even less able juveniles are pointing their cameras through forbidden windows. The Lampoon, if it ever decides to get it together...
Despite excessive prices for such well-known labels, it is still possible to find a decent table wine at a decent price:about $3.50 a bottle. Still, bargain hunt ers must beware. The increasing short age of good imported wine stocks in the U.S. has encouraged some promoters to foist off cheap and often undrinkable French wines on unsuspecting American customers. One British wine merchant is shipping to the U.S. a vinegary rose named Bourgogne-Chainette, which he touts as "light, dry,refreshing" and "a great rarity." Only the last phrase is accurate. With a magnifying glass and a knowledge...
...Christian, I resent the blasphemy against Jesus Christ that has been heard in The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour [Feb. 2]. As an American, I resent the sniping at our President and other loyal Americans. As a man, I resent the efforts of CBS to foist upon the public as "comedians" two of the most uninspired straight men ever to step into the spotlight...
...ascertain whether there is any chance of driving a wedge between it and Hanoi-even though most high U.S. officials in Viet Nam believe that the North dominates the Viet Cong's political leadership. But South Vietnamese officials are so fear ful of a U.S. attempt to foist an N.L.F.-dominated coalition government on them that they have refused to consider any formal meetings. It is conceivable, suggested an observer, that the North is trying to drive its own wedge between Washington and Saigon...
...never told the viewer where he stands on political matters. "I have opinions like anybody else," he says, "and I might even be better informed than the average person, because it's my business to keep up on what's happening. But who am I to foist my opinions on the public...