Word: horselaugh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reporter, Baker had been solemn and respect f til about the New Frontier; as a columnist, he gives it the horselaugh. He is at his best finding new ways to riddle old targets. Scores of other satirists before him have had a go at the presidential press conference, but Baker's very first column topped them all. Sample...
Unhappily, an old star's new glow may also burn out as soon as he gets tenure. A common product of hasty hiring, the "deadwood" scholar is a total loss and a horselaugh on the great game of faculty raiding. This is why Harvard, still relatively unscathed in the hiring battle, takes one full year for an Olympian look at a professor before employing...
...Rode Together (Ford; Columbia) is a capricious, unsuccessful but oddly likable western by Director John Ford, who starts off by making it seem clear that the film will be a horselaugh opera. Jimmie Stewart plays a grafting marshal who has a 10% piece of everything in a Panhandle dust hole, including a gorgeous sporting-house proprietress. But when a cavalry lieutenant (Richard Widmark) asks him mysteriously to ride 40 miles to the fort, Stewart scuttles away with him. The sporting lady wears a stiletto, the marshal explains, and favors marriage...