Word: libbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contests during the '20s, then graduated to the big-band circuit as a comedian. Portraying the angry, fast-talking fat man (his weight yo-yoed between 200 and 330 lbs.), he eventually became a frequent TV guest whose comedy format never varied-a skeleton routine augmented by ad-lib insults to audience and fellow performers alike. "I could be funny for hours on your show," he once told a rival comic, "but I wouldn't want to change the format...
...zest for power. The atomic bomb added an awesome new dimension to presidential responsibility, though the first two nuclear-age Presidents had a nice way of not taking themselves too seriously. Truman was fond of remarking that any of a million other men (this was pre-Women's Lib) were as well qualified to be President. Ike had a genial instinct that the republic would still be standing tomorrow morning if he played a round of golf this afternoon...
...neither a Women's Lib advocate nor a pussy cat," says Genoves. His aim is to study friction between the sexes and to determine how human beings from diverse cultures and classes behave when they live at close quarters. Because the raft measures only 36 ft. by 20 ft., the trip should yield ample material for study. Genoves will go along to take notes on what he sees, and the voyage will be filmed by a cameraman for Mexico's state TV channel 13, which will pick up the $160,000 tab for the experiment...
Riggs, who likes to keep up a running banter, has already begun to chatter. "The pressure on Margaret is going to be tremendous," he says. "She's going to have all Women's Lib on her back saying 'Please, please, don't let this old over-the-hill guy beat you.' She has a history of nerves, of choking. I perform better under stress and strain...
...than impatience for Berger's interminable Reinhardt trilogy, a thousand-page mope about the flounderings of a fat loser. The impatience is not a bit dispelled by Regiment of Women. Berger's latest book is either a grossly awkward takeoff on the excesses of Women's Lib or a blundering satire about the way men treat women. The fact that a careful observer cannot decide which is one indication of what is wrong with the kind of novel Berger has written...