Word: molting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also rises. Too much maligned as the lowest form of humor, it can soar for a brief moment. And in good hands, words can be made to jump, molt, wiggle, shrink, flash, collide, fight, strut, and turn themselves inside out or upside down. They do in this volume of 57 light poems and five airy essays by Felicia Lamport. She briskly suggests that By Love Possessed might well have been written "by Henry James, gulled, cozened." She wonders if spacemen are headed for the "lunar bin." She worries about that poor fellow "who felt his old Krafft ebbing...
...time and place-the phony intellectual, the lecherous boss and his confused secretary, the little man at the mercy of the distant, unreachable, untouchable telephone operator. In An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May, which they are bringing into Manhattan's Golden Theater next month, they molt easily from character to character, life to literature, now enacting a missile scientist talking on the telephone with his mother, now dropping a bit of dialogue between two Saganesque lovers ("This has been the cheapest, tawdriest affair of my life." "Shh, you'll spoil...