Word: gagged
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...fact, Glover says, the Letterman bit was an Andy Kaufmanesque gag, an attempt to bring art everywhere, and he has been booked on the show many times since. The gynecological chair, he explains, is just an old medical examining table that serves as an objet d'art in his apartment. And his immersion in character, he says, explains his reclusiveness on the Willard set, his darkened trailer and the way that before his first rat scene, after much discussion with his director on how to handle it, he screamed, "I didn't expect there to be any rats...
...resource designed to raise cultural awareness for any and everyone. The current organizers of La Vida at Harvard (Olivia Cancio, Camilo Becdach, and myself) are trying to reach out to the entire community, not just a select few. To have such efforts portrayed as a gag leaves me questioning whether The Crimson’s efforts to diversify its staff are truly sincere. Honestly, who would want to comp a newspaper that one day glorifies the efforts of the Latino community and the next day makes fun of those same efforts? Perhaps The Crimson does even not realize the immense...
...Some tales are like visual limericks - poetry with a gag at the end. Take "Dr. Cranbury," for example, one of the more straight-forward bits. Like many of the tales in "Cusp" it's a single page in length. A professorial older gentlemen gets out of his car, dropping a piece of paper. Suddenly a colleague runs up to Cranbury and thrusts something in his face, shouting "look!" "It's a leaf," states Cranbury, flinching at the man's enthusiasm. Then the stranger, who is apparently one of those irritating people who sees "magic" in everything, says "No? Look...
Monteiro has drawn criticism from some camps for the commission’s decision to impose a gag order on candidates before the official start of campaigning...
Several candidates argued that the gag order would unfairly tilt the election toward insider candidates with greater name recognition by allowing them to curry support privately within the council while leaving outsider candidates no venue to begin a public debate over the issues...