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...Actually I wouldn't quote it, I'd declaim it as mine, as if I was not a verse thief or poem-forgia. I also watched Nash on TV, where with Perelman, George S. Kaufman and Fred Allen he formed an informal group of sour-faced humorists who drawled cunning sarcasm So lacerating that anyone on the receiving end would collapse as if thrown down a Yellowstone National Park chasm. Without rising from behind the panel, they showed the world their rumps And defined the '50s wit as a fellow with a tone somewhere between gramps and grumps. Years later...
...psychological to the psychedelic, Nash acquired the attic odor of a literary relic. The simple notion of an exact, if eccentric rhyme, Which Nash shared with the best lyricists of his generation, no longer applied in a day when songwriters twinned "June" with "broom" and "time" with "mine." Like Parker and Peter Arno, he represented The New Yorker's vanished ages. He vanished from the magazine's history, never once mentioned by Brendan Gill in "Here at The New Yorker's 428 pages. He died May 19, 1971, and by then, His passing was hardly more remarked than the ones...
...Life and Times of a Perpetual Optimist (Hyperion). As her subtitle suggests, the book is surprisingly upbeat. "I didn't want people to feel sorry for me, because I don't feel sorry for me," she says. "And I didn't want to make people sad, because mine isn't a sad story. I really wanted to convey that this was just part of a life that had happened. This business is you're up, you're down, you're up, you're down. So I've been both...
...know Henry Kissinger,'" says Bruce Perlmutter, senior executive producer of CNN's new Connie Chung Tonight. "New-world bookers get that what it's about now is who isn't in your Rolodex. They know how to track people down." A recent buffet of tabloid stories--kidnappings, a mine rescue, twins joined at the head--has put these bookers to the test and ratcheted up the competition. Last week NBC had to discipline a booker for buying a pair of $80 pants for one of two California girls who went on Today to tell of their escape from a kidnapper...
...nothin' but a hound dog cryin' all the time You ain't nothin' but a hound dog cryin' all the time Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine. -"Hound...