Word: jabbing
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...better, Muskie is talkative to the point of garrulity. Only once did his diplomatic presence fail him totally. During a lengthy speech on Austrian history at the festivities in Vienna, Muskie fell asleep in his very prominent front-row seat. Lord Carrington tried to wake him with a jab of his elbow, but finally gave up. Not until applause rang out did the Secretary of State's head snap up and his body straighten. Muskie did not seem particularly embarrassed. In his first diplomatic venture, he had demonstrated that when necessary he can be alert indeed...
...arthritis in his right thumb and a minor respiratory allergy to pollen. Reagan's aides contend that the age issue has been exaggerated by the press, yet polls repeatedly show that it concerns many voters. Reagan has faced the problem mostly by joking about it. In a jab at Carter's collapse during a long jog, Reagan last week referred to the stiff race ahead and quipped, "You can be sure I won't be carried off the track...
Some may be disappointed by Time After Time's lack of social satire. Eschewing any real criticism of contemporary values, Meyer takes only an occasional jab, as when Amy takes Wells to Exorcist IV. Nor does Time After Time make any deep comment about the development of society, beyond the obvious one that the present's no paradise. "Ninety years ago, I was a freak. Today I'm an amateur," Stevenson says, treating Wells to a typical TV smorgasbord of news reports, war movies, and sadistic cartoons. Early on, Meyer sets up two conflicting theories of man's capacity...
GERALD FORD was nothing more or less than a good-natured lunk, the political equivalent of his friend Joe Garagiola. Lyndon Johnson ventured that Ford played football without a helmet; that jab came to sum up the former Michigan center, who actually played with his helmet, and very well, too--oddly enough, the notoriously clumsy Ford was probably the best athlete of any President of the 20th century. But still a big lunk: that Nixon would make Ford President, after all his yammering about respect for the office, serves as a good index of how far gone that old carpetbagger...
...style precludes that. Even when he gets a potentially funny idea, he puts it in his title, warning you, and then decapitates any rising titter by tacking some flat line at a moment when a curious twist or jab might have released a legitimate laugh. Martin bypasses the sublime, hurtles through the ridiculous and lands with a splat in the pitiful...