Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think you are wrong when you say that the Agnew Great Dane-hyena in Pogo wears the uniform of a Greek colonel. Look again, and you may find that his attire more closely resembles Nixon's little joke on us all: the new White House guard uniforms, which were introduced...
...right out of Adam 12. He is 6 ft. tall, strapping, fresh-faced and gregarious. He owns a modest seven-room home, has a pretty wife and two healthy children. At 29, Poulin gets along equally well with the townsfolk and students from nearby Colby College. He likes to joke, likes aged bourbon, likes cold beer. Two nights a week he drives 15 miles to the University of Maine campus, where he studies psychology and English composition. He also heads a Boy Scout troop in the best Police Athletic League tradition...
Simpleminded, perhaps. For the real problem with Nixon! is that it leaves most of its potential sources of humor undeveloped. The teach-in scene is a good example. It's full of sound and fury, but has to its credit only one sustained joke. (Nixon, told that the stage will be stormed with the first lie he tells, is struck speechless.) And the show's casual direction doesn't help any. A review should move fast and furious, blackouts should be punchy, and some traveling music never hurts, but Nixon!'s blackouts are more like periodic sessions of silent meditation...
...always, Humphrey talks a good campaign; a longstanding joke among Washington wits is that H.H.H. speaks at 80 miles per hour with gusts up to 100. He frankly admits that those sometimes rambling monologues could prove damaging. He remains infectiously, indomitably ebullient. He laughs easily and frequently, even though his overeagerness to please everyone in the world seems a little pathetic. He dresses more carefully than he used to, and his graying hair still looks dyed to some; Humphrey's aides admit that he tinted it in 1968, but he insists that he does so no longer...
...cage), and an unspecified amount of time in the hole with a loss of an unspecified amount of good time, My crime? My law suits! I was just released from segregation 3 months ago after serving 7 months of total confinement--my crime? The same, I can take a joke so I'll survive this as I have in the past. One thing thought, I've lost all contact with my friends--I don't receive visits or personal mail: I'd like very much to acquire a female pen pal--could you put a small ad in your paper...