Word: gentes
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...pressure valve is self-mocking humor, long an NBC staple. On his Late Night hour, David Letterman has provoked "feuds" with NBC stars Mr. T and Today's Bryant Gumbel. Among Letterman's supporting comedy cast is a silver- haired gent who purports to be one "Grant Tinker"; he recently celebrated NBC's No. 1 status by offering lunch money to habitues of the network commissary. The real Brandon Tartikoff, who has been host on Saturday Night Live, will play himself next week on a comedy special called Bob Hope Buys NBC?--a needling joke in itself, since...
...territory in the Nabokovian universe remains the convolutions of the brain. In the final play, The Grand-dad, this century's refugees are replaced by a French nobleman whose good fortune helped him escape the guillotine in 1792. Decades later he runs into the frustrated executioner, now a senile gent determined to rectify the accidents of history...
...might be a gruff old gent with a streak of eccentricity and a taste for adventure, while the other is younger, more level-headed and a bit uptight. Or if one is an overenthusiastic amateur, the other is a world-weary pro with a hard veneer of cynicism. They seem to bicker constantly, these mismatched TV couples, yet they share a grudging respect and affection--sometimes even a wedding ring. They can be found all over the prime-time dial these days, their names often linked by racy ampersands: Simon & Simon, Hardcastle & McCormick, Kate & Allie, Cagney & Lacey, MacGruder & Loud...
...attract some strange commands from passing natives. An English-speaking Austrian finally told me that I had bought a woman's umbrella. Since I couldn't tell the difference between the one he was carrying and the one I had bought, I asked him to explain the distinction. The gent showed me the slightly different shapes of the two handles. Later I compared it to some American men's bumpershoots, and several of them had very similar handles to my American umbrella. The fact that the distinction between men's and women's outfits is becoming more subtle does...
...Quentin for robbing stagecoaches. By the time he was released, some 30 years later, Wells Fargo had sold its horses and invested in railroads, and the movies had been invented in order to fill idle minds with devilish ideas. Watching The Great Train Robbery in 1903, the old gent perceives a profitable way to enliven his sunset years. All he needs is horses, a few accomplices and, of course, some trains to stick...