Word: gag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost as if the promoters could not quite count on their fighters, the show started long before the bout. Ringside sportswriters were asked to turn out in formal clothes, and many of them went along with the gag. The aisles were thick with red carpeting, as if Governor General Vincent Massey himself was about to grace some extraordinary state affair. But when the houselights darkened and spotlights shone on the home-team dugout, the only notable to appear was James J. Parker, proud in a blue silk robe trimmed with white. He marched to the ring, wary-eyed and handsome...
...word is spoken once the robbery is under way. Moving into an apartment above the store, they bind and gag the concierge and his wife, roll back the living-room rug and begin cutting through the concrete floor. When the hole is the width of a man's wrist, an umbrella is lowered through it and opened to catch the fragments of plaster as the gap is widened. Once in the store, the alarm is swiftly disconnected, the safe opened with an electric drill, and the loot removed. The entire operation simulates major surgery: there is the same mute...
...Marie is breaking her engagement and Hope is walking off, not only with the girl, but with the boy and dog as well. Bob breezes amiably through this pastiche, firing off salvos of one-line jokes, mugging happily, and milking his nervous stomach and faint heart for every sight gag possible. Eva Marie Saint is mostly limited to wearing high-fashion clothes and looking elegant, but, in the drunk scene, she exhibits a comedy talent of her own-especially in a Groucho-like gallop that definitely hits the Marx...
Their use of the gag technique in Parliament will weigh against the Liberals in the next election campaign. The opposition parties, sounding off at a steadily rising pitch against U.S. financial control of Canadian industry, will belabor the government for its support of Trans-Canada. But if Alberta gas is gushing through to Winnipeg this year, the government will be able to point to a notable industrial asset gained, and to argue that the end justified the means...
...country's desperate plight and the government's shortcomings in coping with it have been reported fully in opposition (Republican) and independent newspapers in Istanbul and Ankara, which vigorously protested the gag. Warned Opposition Leader General Ismet Inonu, former Turkish President: "We are going toward totalitarianism." The only hope was that Turkey's newspapers, which boldly and cleverly evaded a less repressive press law of 1954, might find ways to make the new restrictions unenforceable...