Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Uriah Heep, a 24-hour-a-day self-parody: he himself is so funny he pre-empts all other forms of comic abuse. Now Philip Roth is not a writer to be shaken off when there's a laugh to be trailed, shadowed and nabbed. But in reading Our Gang, you get the sense that Richard Nixon did indeed give Roth a run for his money...
Finally, Novelist Philip Roth (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint) has written Our Gang, due out in November, starring President Trick E. Dixon, his wife Fitter, Attorney General Malicious, Vice President What's-his-name and others, including Jacqueline Charisma Colossus. In Roth's manically scurrilous satire, Dixon stealthily retires to a bombproof White House locker room during a national crisis and suits up in his "Prissier College" football uniform to bolster his confidence. At times, the mimicry of Nixon's manner and cadences is brilliant. Alternating between the Swiftian and the sophomoric, Roth has Dixon assassinated...
...Many economists back the businessmen on this issue. Says Walter Heller, who is also on TIME'S Board of Economists: "On a tripartite board, either the labor and public members will gang up on business, or the business and labor members will come to sweetheart solutions. Generally such a board wants peace at any price." A possible compromise, favored by many Administration planners, is to set up a tripartite board that would rule on wage increases, but have its decisions subject to review by a higher board, composed of Government appointees who would examine price boosts as well. That...
...example, last year the gang from the sports cube played a Friday night game against the Penn cheerleaders at halftime of the Quaker-Crimson basketball game. After the game, we hit the sack early to get the rest we needed for Princeton the next night...
After sweeping the weekend doubleheader with a win over The Princetonian, the Crime gang crashed a party at one of the eating clubs, proceeded to rip a stereo speaker off the wall during an oldie orgy, and eventually was physically ejected in time to catch the second show of Channel 43's "Creature Feature." The gang returned to Cambridge Sunday evening, physically exhausted but triumphant...