Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been featuring virtually the same double show for about three years now, but it's Phillipe de Broca's "King of Hearts" that draws the crowds, and still to sellout capacity--why, I haven't the faintest. Some people say that it is funny, but it is a fool's form of funniness...
Plainly, Au. is a fool. He jabbers incessantly about the tea served at his interviews; his temperature is raised by the sight of nuns; he press-gangs the reader into exhausting patrols in search of useless facts. Basically, he is a garbage collector who has found "an occupation that serves the purposes of cleanliness but is regarded as dirty...
...encountering Dwayne's question ("What is the purpose of life?") as a graffito in a New York movie-theater men's room, finds that he has no pen or pencil with which to write his answer: "To be/the eyes/and ears/and conscience/of the Creator of the Universe/you fool." Trout has been invited to give a speech at the Midland City Festival of the Arts, and he hitchhikes to Midland City. He arrives on the wrong side of town and wades through a polluted creek that leaves his feet sealed in a coating of liquid plastic. Defiantly nacreous-footed...
...reasons. I am the same person that I was before. As you may have noticed, I did not even get up from my chair." Mr. II, on the other hand, is an activist. With his endearing, common-sense approach, Mr. II makes Mr. I look like a pedantic old fool. Yet it is part of Mrozek's blind justice that they both receive the same fate--Mr. I may not be any better off than Mr. II because of his refusal to act, but neither is he finally worse...
...music was still pretty good, but Tough Tom began sounding like Sweet Baby James. If you had wanted Sweet Baby, you'd have gone to him in the first place. Tom had gone from Marlboro Man to Flower Child, from King of the Road to touchy/feeley. He was no fool: he knew the time had come and gone for the short-haired cowboy with the guttural voice and the glint...