Word: gag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reunion is viscerally revealing. The humor, and there is quite a bit of it, is abrasive, anal, ethnic and sexually slanderous. One running gag is about the diminutive genitals of the bartender, whose nickname is "Biggie...
...final deadline, and refused to share with his editors his knowledge of any FBI disclosures. Though KQED-TV Reporter Marilyn Baker talked regularly with him on his private home phone, Examiner staffers on the story were routinely denied access. Says Examiner Reporter Carol Pogash: "There was a gag on us. We were told to cool it, not to pursue our leads...
...today bordering on the near obscene," Gonçalves roared at an audience in a high school gymnasium near Lisbon. "Their looseness with freedom impairs freedom of the press." That might seem an odd complaint from a man heading a regime that has permitted Communist-dominated unions to gag nearly all of the nation's newspapers and every television and radio station. But Portuguese readers have been getting a remarkably unvarnished version of the news from a few weeklies, one new daily and, increasingly, from uncooperative staffers on some of the nationalized dailies Gonçalves thought he controlled...
...Indian Parliament to argue against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's June 26 state of emergency, almost the entire press corps, including nearly 300 Indian journalists and some of the 75 foreign correspondents, simply stopped writing and put away their notebooks. The reporters were obeying a savage gag rule imposed on them last week by the government in a drastic effort to tighten India's month-old press control in time for the special parliamentary session. In effect, the rule forced newsmen to censor themselves...
...What a gag like this lacks in novelty Director Blake Edwards can make up for with the trim velocity of his timing, the precision engineering of each comic contretemps. Then there is Peter Sellers as Clouseau. This idiot-savant gumshoe is one of Sellers' best creations, a creature of impervious stupidity and unyielding, if ever tenuous, dignity. Clouseau can vacuum up the entire contents of a hotel room, drive trucks into a swimming pool, inundate his quarters with bubble bath, and still react with the mere suggestion of embarrassment, as if he had just sneezed a little too loudly...