Word: grunts
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...about TV: "There is no such thing as action in television. All the actors do is pretend there has been action-they pant and they groan and they tell you how far they have just run. TV seems dedicated to saying everything without words. The actors stand around and grunt and say 'Dats so' or 'Ain't dat right?' This is stupid." Hecht's decision: "I figured there was one thing I could do. I could write wordy, dialogue-type plays: This sort of thing went out of fashion 25 years...
...Iness jubilantly tossed his towel in the air. But he was frankly a little surprised by his heave: "The discus left my hand so easy I didn't figure it was going very far. I never spun harder, but I didn't even finish with a grunt...
Shortly after that, the Capp cover was scheduled and Associate Editor Paul O'Neil was assigned to write it. O'Neil, a good listener, frightened Capp at first. Says Capp: "All he would do was grunt for two days. Then he warmed up. I felt he was my friend. But the unusual thing about it was that you picked a guy to do the job who read my strip. I've had people from other magazines come up to interview me and say: 'Now about that strip you do-Lum & Abner.' I gradually came...
Judoka consider themselves head & shoulders above ordinary grunt & groaners. One haughty English contestant spoke up for all judoka last week: "Judo is a clean, honest sport, an art, physical poetry, not a childish theatrical exhibition...
...French trappers, didelphys in the classic zoology of Linnaeus and finally the modern opossum. This is the Indian name as recorded by Captain John Smith at Jamestown. But even Smith was wrong, said the King's surveyor in Carolina. The word was possum, preceded by a grunt, hence the opossum...