Word: jibe
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...upon an operetta that has any humor of its own. Iolanthe, happily, is such an operetta: W.S. Gilbert, for once, lampooned a group he actually knew by sight--instead of pirates and Japanese--and the result, coupled with Sir Arthur's magnificent mock-hymns, was a grandly devastating jibe at the Victorian Establishment. Peers sweep around the stage, admitting, grandly, at they are doing "nothing in particular"; demand humble submission from the Lower Middle Classes and intone a soulful invocation the watery joys of Blue Blood...
...others. Edmund Hennessy, on the other hand, did away with every sort of restraint in his nervous, grimacing portrayal of Mycetes, the effete King of Perisa. Hennessy was terribly funny, but his evident talent as a mime deserves more direction that it got. Now and then a gesture would jibe with a line. However, for the most part, he wasted a lot of inspired movements that distracted attention from the Marlowe and riveted it on his own plastic face...
...third race, Ford was sailing on the downwind leg of the course when a sudden shift in the wind direction caused the sail to jibe accidentally. The main boom swung across, carrying both Horn (acting as downwind boomvang) and Drake with it. Pring just managed to place himself in their path and block them from plummeting over the boat's rail...
...knot puff of wind hit the boat as Ford was attempting to jibe around the first leeward marker in the fourth race, and the sail ended up wrapped around the spreaders. As Ford lost precious moments clearing the Crimson sails, the Coast Guard and BU rounded the mark and started upwind with about a 50 yard lead...
With two boats ahead now and the only possibility left of tying Navy by placing second, Marshal threw caution to the winds and tossed on the big blue and white spinnaker. After rapidly catching the Babson boat, he ordered a jibe. Although the boom rode up the mast in the high wind, four of the crew barely held it down