Word: jabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amid the poetry and razzmatazz, there were some discordant, familiar old notes. Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Minnesota's Hubert Horatio Humphrey, the Democrats' two out-in-the-open candidates, began to jab the Republicans-and each other-a little harder. In Santa Ana, Calif., hard by Nixon's home town, Humphrey said the Vice President would be a "negative, nogo, go-slow, not-now, veto type of executive." At a rally of the amateur-politico California Democratic Council in Fresno, Kennedy warned that the party "would be committing a grave error if it ever tried...
...horror story as a bubbly champagne farce. For at least two-thirds of the film, the thick-necked Schlotbarone bounce about hilariously, like a chorus line of caricature capitalists. In fact, the weakness of the picture as social satire is that too often it tickles where it ought to jab. Only in the last reel does the customer stop giggling, as in the bottom of the champagne glass he suddenly sees something hard to swallow. The moviemakers make him swallow it anyway. Oddly enough, Germans have not shrunk from the experience. Rosemary is the second most popular picture made...