Word: gaggingly
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...Gallup poll favored having female priests. Still, Rome has not budged on the issue. In 1994 Pope John Paul II emphatically restated the ban in a pastoral letter, and the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared his decision "infallible" and "not...open to debate." The gag order, even more than the edict, drove church liberals to distraction...
...Like the shift from network radio to the rise of independent stations, Top 40 happened quickly, between 1955 and '57. It soon became so codified that by 1959 a comedy duo, Arbogast and Ross, could produce a canny satire of the format, complete with frothing DJs, helicopter traffic reports, gag commercials aimed at teens who feel excluded because they don't have zits ("Pimple-On! Adds blotches and blemishes to the clearest of skin!") and, amid all the aural clutter, an occasional song. It would last about four seconds before the DJ ramped up his rant...
...trademark, a cameo in each of his films, shows the director's admiration of a good joke. His role as a casual passerby - as a man reading a newspaper or a passenger on a train - recurs 32 times in one room of the exhibition. The deliberateness of the gag is at its height in the 1944 film Lifeboat: an ad for a weight-loss program printed on the back of a survivor's newspaper features the portly director and his famous gut - in before and after poses...
...Translation: They mistakenly squeezed the hell out of my perfectly normal uvula, causing it to swell up and me to gag...
...they work because they are funny, their plot tensions taut, their characters persuasive. The heady promise of Pixar's Monsters, Inc. (due in November) is the creation of character comedy that moves faster than the speed of live action. Don't blink, or you'll miss a great gag...