Word: gaggingly
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...rest of the committee, recognizing a good publicity gag when they saw one, decided to capitalize on Hope's fame. So since Miss Seela is unavailable, her Radcliffe counterpart, a girl with her spirit, will add her class to the goings on April 30 through...
...Mike Nichols touch, always deft, daft and droll, flicks The Odd Couple along at a dervish's pace. But it is Neil Simon's comic freshness of vision that provides the inner momentum. Simon rarely tosses a line straight up in the air for an isolated gag; he hits it across a net of personal relationships so that a steady volley of wit builds up out of character and situation. Simon also knows how to prod a cliché off its bed of banality so that it walks toward the brink of logical absurdity. "Who'd send...
...away her composure but retains her chic. As the murdered lover's widow, Mary Astor offers an ashen portrait of a woman who is not quite dead but already appears embalmed. Oscar Nominee Agnes Moorehead, as Charlotte's loyal drudge is a snarling, scratching sound-and-sight gag who seems determined to out-overact the best of them. But Bette meets the challenge in a climactic staircase scene, a horrendous ham classic. Sobbing, she crawls to the top of the steps, sees something, freezes like a psychotic spaniel, then goes howling down backward and sideways, all matted curls...
Those who manage to wade through the extravagant language of the first page of this news column (and through a proof reading job that would make even a CRIMSON subscribe gag), will find a section headlined "Harvard and the FBI." "Most colleges," the writer declares, "find it sufficient to help Gestapo-like organizations behind the scenes...discreetly turning over rosters of student organizations, evaluations of students by their teachers, or even psychological information concerning a particular malcontent. Harvard, as the most noble institution of the country, doesn't stop there...
...surprisingly, the Philadelphia gag (which is not legally binding) roused hot criticism from the local press, police, prosecutors, and even Mayor James H. J. Tate, who told the police to ignore it. But the sharpest words came from a less predictable source. "A free and unfettered press is indispensable to a free country," said Chief Justice John C. Bell Jr. of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. If it is "muzzled or gagged, crime will run even more rampant." Added Justice Michael A. Musmanno: "Curbing crime news is like recommending that no one talk about cancer, on the theory that silence will...