Word: grails
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Jarvis has been waging that war for 16 years now. While others talked of Viet Nam and Watergate, he pursued with almost monomaniacal fervor what he calls his Holy Grail: reduced taxes and reduced government spending. In three unsuccessful campaigns for public office (the 1962 Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, the 1972 race for the State Board of Equalization and the 1977 Los Angeles mayoral primary), Jarvis frequently failed to mention his own candidacy; all he wanted to do, he says, was publicize the tax issue...
...producers operate on an avaricious creed: if at first you do succeed, try it again and again. The current golden format is the confessional musical. It emerged as a shining triumph in A Chorus Line. Between dance numbers, each cast member explains why dancing became a kind of Holy Grail. In Runaways, the street urchins tell pathetic tales of the violent and loveless homes from which they fled...
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The British comedy group Monty Python has a sense of humor that shines on record and goes over well on television; unfortunately, a feature-length film can accommodate only so many ludicrous even offensive gags before the well runs dry. Seeing an insolent knight in armor whacked down to a limbless torso may amuse the warped souls among us, but this sweeping satire of the Middle Ages soon exhausts the range of laughable subjects that kicked around in King Arthur's day. Scenes occasionally crop up that deserve a hearty guffaw; too bad they...
Jabberwocky. At the Harvard Square Theater, Friday at 7:55. With Monty Python and the Holy Grail...
Potbellied and ugly as the auld mug may be, it is the Holy Grail of yachting. Twenty-two attempts have been made to wrest the 100-guinea pitcher from the U.S. at a cost of untold millions of dollars. But the cup has remained of the firmly in the possession of the New York Yacht Club ever since it was won from Britain's Royal Yacht Squadron in 1851 under the eyes of an astonished Queen Victoria. Now, in an attempt to break the longest winning streak in modern sports history, a new challenger from Down Under named Australia...