Word: interrupter
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Dick is the straight man, Tom is the bumbling buffoon. Between skits, they sing fractured folk songs. In the middle of Michael, Row the Boat Ashore, for example, Tom will interrupt with a snigger: "Hey, Michael, you'd better get that boat back; you'll lose your deposit." Or, eyes rolling like lopsided marbles, stuttering as though his tongue were mired in sludge, he will launch a monologue that begins anywhere and goes nowhere. When Dick glowers disapprovingly, Tom bawls like a seven-year-old: "Mom always liked you best...
...When I spoke with him last week he had just finished a Boston talk show a few days before and a New York talk show the night before. He was just finishing up a speech he would give two days later to a consumers' group. And he had to interrupt our interview for ten minutes to tape a segment for a New York radio station...
...EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). "We Interrupt This Season" tosses a barbed lampoon at some staples of TV programming: election coverage, weather reporting, guided tours of famous places and those late-late, talk-talk shows...
...Commission's decision to fix the year of maximum vulnerability at 19 is well informed. Any earlier and the draft would interfere with education in slow-paced slum schools; later, and men would have to interrupt their junior or senior year in college--the time when most schools ask a student to devote himself to his major field of study...
...campaign to interrupt North Viet Nam's flow of arms and men to the Communist troops in the South, the U.S. possesses a large arsenal of tactics and weaponry as yet unused against Hanoi. Last week the U.S. introduced three new forms of military pressure against the enemy's supply lines. This was the response to the Communist use of the Tet holiday truce last month to funnel some 25,000 tons of war materiel southward. Each of the three new moves was carefully tailored for a specific and precise military mission...