Word: glue
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...scarlet mouth into an obsequious leer as he whines the lyrics of Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome. The character has no name, no dialogue. But in Joel Grey's insinuating performance, the sleazy, empty-souled, fanny-grabbing emcee of Berlin's Kit Kat Klub is not only the glue that holds the musical together but also the embodiment of a nation's depravity during the black dawn of the Nazis...
...Liveright, still strapped, was ready to unload his Modern Library, a shelf of 950 reprint classics whose only liability was a distinct and unpleasant odor emanating from the binding glue. Cerf rounded up Donald Klopfer, put the arm on his Wall Street uncle, and snapped up the Modern Library, smell and all, for $200,000. Within three years, Klopfer and Cerf, having retired their debts, decided to branch out by publishing a few new books at random. Thus was Random House born...
...Glue Poisoning. In format, Joan Rivers owes much to the likes of Shelley Berman and Woody Allen, but her style and material, to say nothing of her femininity, make her something special. Snapping out her lines, bobbing and weaving around the stage like a pug in the last throes of brain damage, she is an unindexed handbook on how to be neurotic about practically everything...
...wanted man to fly, he'd have given him wings.' And it's our pilot." Or trading stamps. It seems a girl friend saved 1,345 books of stamps toward an African safari. When she licked the last one, she got sick and died of glue poisoning. Or sex. "My husband is English, you see. He's terribly conservative. He wears pajamas with a vest. I give him a hug and a kiss and he says, 'Not here, not here.' Yesterday I started to give him a hug and a kiss and he said...
Laughing gas was what it needed, decided most of the Southampton spectators. "This is a lot of nothing with no glue to hold it together," growled one cop. "Not so," Kaprow smiled benignly. "This game is dream work-the kind kids do." But he did not waste time arguing the point with critics. CBS-TV was filming the Happening, and Kaprow had to bustle his motley throng off for the next event...