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...husband, a convicted draft resister, with the preface: "He is going to prison for three years. The reason is that he resisted selective service and the draft and militarism in general." The second sentence was cut. Also deleted were such soporific bits as Comic Jackie Mason's gag about children playing doctor. There really must be something to the game, Mason said, because "Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if he wanted to become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Censorship: The Brothers' Troubles | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...attract young people on their first or second cars. Ford is attempting to attract young buyers by offering the Maverick in colors that were created at a group brainstorming session, presumably held in a cornfield. The colors include Freudian Gilt, Original Cinnamon, Thanks Vermilion and Hulla-Blue. The standard gag among the executives is that the company will entertain any name except "Statutory Grape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE MAKING OF THE MAVERICK | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...typical bit, Redd Foxx told Slappy White of the first Negro athletic-scholarship winner at the University of Mississippi -"He's a javelin catcher." White observed that Oct. 27 is a Negro holiday - "That's the day when the new Cadillacs come out." In one sight gag, George Kirby stretched out on a beach mat, opened a bottle of suntan oil and slathered it on the pink soles of his feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Black Can Be Funny | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...most passionate eating scenes since Tom Jones. Occasionally he falls as flat as a novice's souffle. He once referred to the trimming of mushroom stems for a steak-kidney-mushroom-and-oyster pie as "a small circumcision." He crimped the edge of a piecrust with a gag-store pair of false teeth. His hyper-Briticisms tend to be overdone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Kitsch in the Kitchen | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...sexual perversions in maturity, Portnoy himself can't reconcile the dichotomy between his public and private life. So--in helpless frustration--he turns to us, asking us to consider his role as "the smothered son in a Jewish joke," hoping that we'll recognize the inherent pain in the gag, "the part Sam Levenson leaves...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Portnoy's Complaint | 2/22/1969 | See Source »

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