Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into an institution to gain control of his fortune. Faced with "Holmes," the asylum assigns a real psychiatrist named Watson (Joanne Woodward). Even though the sex is wrong, the Baker Street Irregular decides that she is the Dr. Watson ("Elementary, my dear"), and the shrink goes along with the gag. Soon the two are tooling along in Manhattan in pursuit of a villain known inevitably as Moriarity...
...childish high jinks. Sheely and Sisto were first and second bananas. With unfettered glee, they short-sheeted beds, banged on walls, and placed a tape recording of reveille set to go off at 4 a.m. under a court deputy's bed (he slept through it). Their boffo running gag: a rubber chicken purchased as a complement to Sheely's chicken jokes. The chicken made regular appearances in beds and toilets around the jurors' hotel rooms at the Ambassador (cleverly dubbed the "Dambassador"). As a token of their esteem, the group at trial's end presented...
Playing North as cool, rather xenophobic and wry (as his research suggested), Ustinov showed his contempt for the colonials by referring to a certain "Colonel George Washingham." Asked about another rebel leader, Ustinov could not restrain himself from a coy, anachronistic gag. "John Hancock, sir, there can be no insurance of anything while he is active," he sniffed. At more serious moments, Ustinov dismissed the Boston Massacre as "a minor incident" and, when queried as to "the core of the quarrel between the Americans and your government," replied: "You regard it as a quarrel; I regard it more as slight...
...most persistent and effective critic, Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, loomed large. The stubborn Democrat (see box, page 13) has fought the plane from its inception; he kept feeding its House critics valuable information and staged a last-minute press conference to complain that the Administration was trying to gag one of the plane's scientific opponents: Dr. Gio Gori, of the National Cancer Institute who first agreed, but later refused, to testify about the potential effect of SST flights on skin cancer...
...They would like to gag the press," Tin said, "by throwing two journalist priests in jail. Other journalists will think if they can do that to two Catholic priests, what will they...