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...help in November." Chip has been home only six times for brief visits during the past year, but, unlike his father, he still finds a lot to laugh about in politics. When a young woman in Hurst knelt to photograph his Jimmy Carter belt buckle. Chip jumped back in mock alarm. Said he: "I thought you were lusting after my belt buckle." The best Carter campaigner, excluding Mom and Dad, Chip will have stumped in 48 states by Election Day. Twice he flunked speech courses in college. He boasts: "I could pass...
...hell is 'we'?" he asks, mock-incredulously...
Fortunately, unlike "the magazine that condenses"--as they mock in one song, they couldn't keep their story down to three lines. In 1944 they got their first big chance as lyricists, working with Leonard Bernstein on "On the Town." Since then, their words have spotlighted "Singin' in the Rain." "The Band Wagon," "Bells are Ringing," "Wonderful Town," "Hallelujah Baby," and "Applause...
...witty in the nation this fall. During a panel discussion after the primary, Buckley referred to Moynihan as "professor," somehow managing to evoke with his richly cultivated tone the image of a chalk-dusty elitist woefully out of touch with reality. Up shot the Moynihan Mephistophelean eyebrow. With mock outrage he fulminated: "Boy, this campaign is getting rough. I might call you a businessman...
...Nolan. The Gaelic novel is not only written for and of the Gales, but also purports to be by one-a certain Bonaparte O'Coonassa. But the credit transparently belongs to Myles, the columnist concerned about the so-called preservation of Gaelic Ireland, and the satirist who could mock things Gaelic as he lamented their passing, even making fun of his own concerns. All simultaneously, and in the language of the issue, the "Gaeltacht...