Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down with Committees. One of the last remaining U.S. businessmen to head a huge company that carries his family name, "H. W." Hoover is unique and outspoken in many ways. He abhors management by committee; on his desk is a picture of a camel and the familiar gag caption that it is a horse designed by a committee. He insists that his executives stay out of the stock market (says Hoover: "If they're absorbed in gaining wealth, they're not giving their best thinking to the company"). He forbids corporate borrowing ("You get captured by financial obligations...
...German workers kept the war machine supplied right up to the end of the conflict. Even in the midst of chaos, some Germans managed to retain a gritty sense of humor. "For example," Rumpf relates, "when two like-minded Berlin citizens met after a particularly devastating raid, the gag of the moment was to make a sweeping gesture to take in the devastation and repeat a previous appeal made by the Fuhrer himself: Give me four years and I promise you you won't recognize your towns...
...pitcher for this engagement was Johnny Podres, who at 31 is getting a trifle thick around the waist. There are those who joke that Bachelor Podres pitches harder off the field than on ("He's done all the things that Bo Belinsky says he has," goes one gag), but among his peers he has a reputation as a "money" pitcher who is toughest under pressure. Over 81 innings, he gave up only six hits and one run; then he handed the ball to Relief Pitcher Ron Perranoski, and tipped his cap to the fans...
...Suitor is a sight-gag souffle-tasty, fluffy and French. Screenwriter, director and star, all in one, is diminutive Pierre Etaix, who manages to combine the wobbly wistfulness of Chaplin, the deadpan pantomiming of Buster Keaton, and the jumping-jack gymnastics of Harold Lloyd...
...doctor likes to sit in his office and tune in, by way of closed-circuit TV, on Polly Bergen, Janis Paige and other patients down in the group-therapy room. It is a pretty good show, too, what with Janis, as a nymphomaniac, showing a comic flair in her gag lines -some of which might have been pretty funny in some other movie. "They ought to stick you in the men's ward," a fellow patient says to Janis. "That's the best offer I've had in three months," she replies...