Word: gaggingly
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...right of petition has been abridged on occasion, as in 1836 when the House of Representatives' "gag rule" cut off abolitionist demands. Fortunately, the right has survived all such challenges. If, however, the petition is to remain a meaningful force for "redress of grievances," it must be employed more sparingly-and as a precise, if impassioned, plea rather than as a manufactured publicity device...
...Despite Cronkite's unqualified success as a newsman, the network persuaded him to try to be an entertainer as well. Reluctantly, he agreed to host a CBS morning program to compete with Dave Garroway's Today Show, and he found himself a hostage to show business. A gag writer was hired to write his lines, and he lost control of the program. "I was reasonably charming," he insists to this day, "but the whole thing didn't work...
Around the Manhattan headquarters of American Airlines, one corridor gag is that "More women have gone to sleep with Bob Hall than with any other man in the world," and that's probably true...
...Alphabet Murders. A funny thing happens to Tony Randall on his way out of a police station: he meets Margaret Rutherford on her way in. And Miss Rutherford's gag guest appearance as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple is the only thing that is funny about this arch and clumsy attempt to launch Randall as another celebrated Christie character, the Belgian snooper-sleuth Hercule Poirot...
...Morgan--and this is what makes it intellectually much more than a one and one half hour gag--explores all sides to the illusion, holds it up to the lens and shows how flinty it is and how eaily cracked when someone doesn't believe...