Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the street into the traffic. This is particularly bad on Massachusetts Avenue near Plympton Street and further out towards Porter Square in the neighborhood of Sacremento Street. The "twenty feet from the island" regulation is not enforced and this again causes a severe and hazardous bottleneck. Finally, the idiot who opens his car door into traffic is a menace both to himself and to others...
...undertaker was beside himself ("This is criminal!"), and his caller finally let him off the hook by switching to his natural voice: "Hi there. This is Jonathan Winters. Only kidding." Exploded the undertaker: "You were an idiot even in high school...
Next Time St. Vincent's. This, too, was something of an exaggeration. Jonathan Harshman Winters III, 32, longtime vagrant on radio, TV and in nightclubs, easily one of the funniest comedians in the business, is hardly an idiot, even though his humor springs out of and depends on idiocy. Last week Winters displayed his loony magic in Chicago's Black Orchid nightclub, racing hysterically through his varied roles-from a harassed father scared of his own kids, to the whole cast of a jail break complete with the rataplan of a Tommy gun, produced by his elastic larynx...
Congratulations! TIME and Henry Koerner have accomplished what television and news photographers have failed in doing over the years. You've taken a handsome man and made him look like a fat idiot...
Success, says Stan, has unfortunately brought an upsurge of censorship. "We hear first from the organized pressure groups, then the idiot fringe that is made up of the unorganized wet-rock people-who behave as if they've just crawled out from under wet rocks and accuse me of being a Red for poking fun at Johnnie Ray, Lawrence Welk, Jack Webb, the whole State of Nevada and hearing aids." At the prices he now commands, Freberg reckons he can stand the complaints...