Word: hatpin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City, in the same play, she screamed to backstage technicians about misplaced cues, not knowing that her body mike was still on. Her complaints thundered all the way to the last row. Then, in a performance of The Devil's Disciple in Stratford, Conn., she stuck a hatpin in her chest, puncturing a lung. "I wasn't doing very well, anyway," she sighs. "I just didn't understand the part." To end the list, add only three words: Gable and Lombard, possibly the worst major movie of the decade. Says she: "You would think I would...
...James Bell Jr., vice president of Bell's Gun and Sport Inc. in Franklin Park, Ill. "They're even getting his-and-her guns." About 40% of Bell's clientele are female?young working women as well as elderly widows. Other weapons favored by frightened women: the old-fashioned hatpin, a tear-gas capsule, a can of oven cleaner (which contains...
...Comedy is criticism" means that the comic spirit jabs a deflationary hatpin into vanity and pretension and pomposity-just as Bob and Ray do. Their comedy reflects a society that is inundated with talk. Their chief target, the interview show, affords a shock of rueful recognition to everyone, for who has not spent hours of his own prime time listening to the dull conversing with the fatuous, or to Babel lecturing Babbitt? Bob and Ray have thrown a net into this noisy, restless, self-important sea of totally irrelevant information and fished up the audience's own image...