Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...questions were often better than the answers, though as the old saying goes, a fool can ask ten questions while a wise man is answering one. Generally, print journalists knew their subjects better than electronic journalists; the best-balanced team of questioners were the three who queried the vice-presidential candidates; the best single questioner was Max Frankel, who exhibited the sharpness he will bring to the New York Times editorial page when he becomes its editor in January. His question to Ford produced the famous gaffe on Eastern Europe, which Frankel, unbelieving, gave Ford a chance to correct...
...Hoagy Carmichael, Carmen Miranda-with its own swank brand of soul. Strains of Whispering (1920) are grafted onto Cherchez la Femme, a disco number bumping along to Mickey Sevilla's sassy drumbeat. A lilting intro evoking Glenn Miller evolves into the hustle smash I'll Play the Fool...
Hard Dollar. It is not simply that Alex is a fool for punishment. He makes his living from it. He pulls down a hard dollar as a bail bondsman and indulges in much gruff whimsy during working hours. "What's the good word?" a gangster client asks him innocently. Alex pounces: "Sunset is a good word. Pretzel is a good word." At last, the gypsy stirring in her soul, Maritza jumps the bail that Alex has posted for her assault rap and heads for Mazatlán in a private plane, accompanied by a rich gent with a lickerish...
...diverse as The Exorcist, Earthquake and Jaws was the sheer movie magic they featured. From the start it was generally, and to some degree falsely, understood that the new Kong would stand or fall on how realistic the big monkey would seem on screen. Producer De Laurentiis, being no fool, has stressed the expense of his efforts to satisfy the shrewdest eye as to Kong's believability, while playing up the drama of doing so against a self-imposed deadline of release before Christmas...
...them were laughing about the threat, how silly the whole thing was, how ridiculous it was that their classes were canceled, or how it didn't bother them at all. They knew the bomb was a hoax, or so they told themselves. But don't let the laughter fool you; they were scared...