Word: foofaraw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...camps, the one was Veeck. ("That's the usual tally," he says.) A few days later, he unveiled the new White Sox warm weather uniform-short pants. On opening day, peg-legged Veeck (he lost his leg as a result of a 1943 war wound) choreographed some Bicentennial foofaraw and greeted his crowd as the fife player in a fetching patriotic ceremony. Marching across the field with him were Business Manager Rudie Schaffer on drum and stern Sox Manager Paul Richards bearing the flag, both as resplendent as Veeck in Revolutionary War costumes...
...hero, Justice Daniel Snow (Melvyn Douglas) is inspired by William O. Douglas. The heroine, Ruth Loomis, played by Jean Arthur, is quite simply hatched from the current foofaraw over women's lib. She is the first woman to be appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court. Her late husband, whose views she apparently shares, was a conservative of the Neanderthal stripe. Obviously, she irks Justice Snow. One of the internal contradictions of the play is that Snow, despite his liberal views, is some thing of a chauvinistic fossil when it comes to accepting women on the high bench...
...Great American Dream Machine, has been wisely cut from 90 minutes to a more manageable one hour this year. But opening night-which aired some particularly imaginative segments, notably two charming cartoons and a droll sketch of a Mississippi crop duster-abruptly ended after 45 minutes in a foofaraw symptomatic of public TV's major ailment in the U.S. Since PBS and its producers get much of their financing from the Federal Government, and since this funding is not insulated from querulous annual scrutiny, the network quakes at the least cavil from the Administration or Congress. Last week, after...
...NANETTE (204). Long, long ago, it used to be said that good Americans went to Paris when they died. Nowadays they go to No, No, Nanette. It's a nice place to expire-with nostalgia, laughter and the ultimate in escapist foofaraw. One can only hope that they gild Ruby Keeler's shoes for the Hoofer's Hall of Fame and vote Patsy Kelly the Most Amusingly Insolent Maid of the Century. To Helen Gallagher, and Bobby Van, let's just say, "Thou swell...