Word: mirthfulness
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...slams into the lintel at full frontal force. The warning applies also to those attending this compilation of old Warner Bros, cartoon shorts. Beware of low gags, supersonic mayhem, polka-dot undershorts and the occasional smack in the puss-Sylvester J. Pussycat, to be precise. There is much unfettered mirth here from the rest of the Warner menagerie: from Bugs, the Cagney of lagomorphs, who plays Galahad and slickshooter to the splenetic Yosemite Sam in two of the best shorts (Knighty Knight Bugs, Wild and Woolly Hare); from the hugely talented Daffy Duck as a reluctant egg layer (Golden Yeggs...
...these numbers," Greider quotes Stockman as saying, a rather serious admission for anyone working in economics, let alone the chief architect of a revolutionary fiscal policy. Reagan's opponents have certainly made the most of the opportunity Stockman's indiscretions offered them; but neither the voices of anger or mirth can hide certain forlorn echoes. Stockman's remark that supply-side theory served as a "Trojan Horse" for old Republican doctrines could hardly prove devastating in a world where ideas and careful thinking count more than images and the impression they create. His charges are hardly new, for they mirror...
Peter Sellers, 54, peerless English master of mirth, a man of many faces who slipped easily into parts as diverse as the crazed Dr. Strangelove, the bumbling Inspector Clouseau of Pink Panther fame and the brilliantly bland gardener turned presidential adviser in Being There...
...dangers--He sets all of the trees ablaze And laughs to the forest rangers. His resting place is Washington, A home for the tired and the sore; The transition team removes its gear And liquor begins to pour. "I come bearing gifts," says St. Ronald, "A bagful of Christmas mirth: Toy planes, toy soldiers, toy tanks, toy bombs--Billions of dollars in worth. I'll put on a mammoth Christmas show, With lights and flashes and caroling loud And as the thrilling finale I'm planning a mushroom-shaped cloud...
However, the mirth is only the means to a more serious end. Ted Tally, who wrote a somber tribute to the moral courage of polar explorers in Terra Nova, now explores the contagious terrain of venality. He asks, in effect, How do creatures such as David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam"), Jim Jones and Gary Gilmore, men who occupy an appalling moral void, arc to celebrity status save for the vulpine collusion of the goldbugs - agents, publicists, the press, TV and films...