Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certainly an important consideration in current star Steve Martin's monologues. The source of his humor is about as far removed from Bruce's as one can imagine. Martin, like Johnny Carson, delivers non-jokes, gags about how his jokes flop, about the ridiculous price of admission, and about how ludicrous the comedian's job is. Lenny Bruce wove his life into the bits he performed for nightclub audiences; Steve Martin (one must assume) leaves his real life behind when he goes onstage to make a fool of himself for the audience's benefit...
Moments later, a thunderous ovation went up as Miller snaked in a long putt on the 18th hole--the kind the British call "tram riders--to win one up over Steve Martin...
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concertos in E and A-minor; Concerto for Two Violins in D-minor; Air from Suite No. 3 in D (Henryk Szeryng and Maurice Hasson, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner conductor, Philips). Bach was the field marshal of the concerto form, regimenting the fluid lines of such Italian masters as Vivaldi and Corelli into complex string masterpieces. Szeryng, the Polish-born virtuoso, and Second Fiddle Hasson demonstrate great authority within Bach's polyphonic ranks. Their counterpoint in the double concerto is superb, as is the accompaniment led throughout by Neville Marriner...
...Washington, there were flurries of telephone calls among Central Intelligence Agency alumni as they watched CIA Director William Martin (Cliff Robertson) explain to his mistress that he had lied before a Senate committee about political assassinations abroad. Martin is a fictional mutation of former CIA Chief Richard Helms, and a plot line of Behind Closed Doors is that the top spook blackmailed President Richard Monckton (Jason Robards) to cover up the killings. Nothing of the kind ever occurred, but some CIA veterans were concerned about the possibilities of further damage to the agency's already battered image...
Five minutes later, Harold Martin broke in alone on McElaney and powdered a low shot into the corner of the Lion goal. Suddenly, it was Harvard 1-Columbia 0, and the season's prospects looked just dandy...