Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among supper-club songbirds, the Act has become as ritualized as a liturgy, right down to the devotion "to all the wonderful people who made this performance possible." So the audience is exhorted to applaud Mom and manager, composer and choreographer, gag writer and special-material arranger, the second violins and the third husband-just about everyone, in fact, except the plastic surgeon...
Died. Gardner Rea, 74, cartoonist and contributor to The New Yorker since its founding in 1925, esteemed both for his squiggly line drawings ("Nobody will catch on when I get senile," he once said) and for his sharp gag lines, which often formed the bases of cartoons by his colleagues Charles Addams and Helen Hokinson; of a heart attack; in Brookhaven...
...retreating to Texas instead of going out politicking. Save for Montana, where Senator Lee Metcalf won the only major race, Democrats suffered serious defeats in every state that the President had planned to visit. Even in Texas, Republican Senator John Tower crushed Democrat Waggoner Carr. According to a gag making the Washington rounds. "Lyndon...
...looks the part of a President and, as a devout Mormon, is morally about as upright as a candidate can be. But even those who lean toward him are not sure that he has the depth for the job, and some express concern over his tendency toward sanctimoniousness. One gag has an aide telling Romney, as the two emerge from a meeting, "Beautiful day, Governor." Romney's reply: "Thank you." Over the next 20 months, the undecided Republicans will be studying his performance with microscopic care...
...Best gag: the audience is permitted to inspect a top-secret cable just long enough to glimpse the code words QWERT YUIOP-the top line on the typewriter. Best performance: Actor Taylor's. He plays a rather subtly caricatured Sean Corny who looks so much like the man who plays Bond that he even seems to be wearing the same Charles of the Ritz chest...