Word: goof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hope laces his wit with good taste. He may sometimes play the ogling goof, but he is essentially a monologist who portrays no other character than Bob Hope. Jack Benny is a "character" comedian-stingy Jack. Such comics as Danny Kaye, Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason shine best in sketches. Many of today's young monologists, in the style of the late Lenny Bruce, specialize in acutely perceived, often bitter commentary, not to say four-letter words. Hope's comedy is broader, less original in viewpoint, but it is almost always clean, just as topical, more deftly timed...
Classic Soof. For further evidence that plot progression is not essential for TV, the McLuhanites cite the classic goof on CBS in 1965. The network was running a Hollywood movie, The Notorious Landlady. Inadvertently, a technician played two of the three reels out of sequence. Twenty-one million people watched the show, but the network got only a peep of protest...
...Wednesday), but not surprisingly, herself-possession rubs some people the wrong way. Some actors dislike working with her, and one called her "a golden pain in the behind." They abhor her trademark mannerisms, the way she stutters and flutters her hands before uttering a line, as if about to goof it. Sandy is a constant hair pusher: in the first few minutes of Up the Down Stair case, she pushed three times. She is also an oral actress: a lip biter, tongue twitcher, mouth closer and chin wrinkler. Her vocal rhythm is a hesitation tango; her midsentence gasps leave audiences...
...Though Eastern Europe continues to hymn the glories of "worker" states and exhort its able-bodied to "work together to build a better life under socialism," the unsocialist truth is that its workers have become just about the world's biggest goof-offs. In Rumania, they cost industry $75 million in wasted time during the first four months of this year. Bulgaria lost 25 million man-days last year because of absenteeism. When Polish factory workers show up at all, says the Communist trade-union paper Glos Pracy, they "work only about 70% of their normal eight-hour...
...Kirst explored the soldier's life in Hitler's Wehrmacht, in which he himself had served twelve years, and found a simple point: a dogface is a dogface, even under the sign of the swastika. Asch was a universal type, a latter-day Good Soldier Schweik, the goof-off who confounds every military system...