Word: gag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Immediately, half a dozen heavy-duty monsters thrust themselves through the door to beg in plaintive unison, "Oh, please want to!" The joke works nicely, because these are Muppets, and their voyeurism is acceptable. It is the kind of gag that evokes queasiness when it is given to middle-aged bandleaders on variety shows...
...happy jazz of the '40s playing in the background, Friedkin sets out on a non-stop, all-out, giggly trip down bum's row. Unfortunately, the movie seems to have borrowed its sense of humor from the '40s as well, with no attempt to update it. Every old gag in the book makes its way into the film. Safes fall out of windows and just miss unsuspecting pedestrians, people keep bumping into each other, the odd-tasting pot of beef stew turns out to have a shoe in it. These tired routines would be forgivable if Friedkin didn't seem...
...rational equilibrium should look like, but what is economically rational in an irrational world and how best to get from here to there." At week's end he had not decided whether to take the job. If he does, he has a quick enough wit to appreciate a gag that is circulating in Washington: he should be called not anti-inflation czar but king-King Kahn...
...cultural phenomenon, black holes also appear in slogans on T shirts and bumper stickers (BLACK HOLES ARE OUT OF SIGHT), and are the subject of banter by Johnny Carson and other TV talk show hosts. A gag advertisement in the sci-fi magazine Analog by a company named Nothingness Unlimited promoted "black-hole disposal units," invisible devices (in seven decorator colors) that suck up unlimited waste...
...Roosevelt. Young Alsop had his collegiate defenses of F.D.R. demolished by a rectilinear old Republican who declared: "A man who does not dislike and distrust Franklin Roosevelt by instinct, without asking for reasons, is no gentleman." Plenty of Americans feel that way about Nixon: it is an allergy, a gag reflex...