Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walked out of church, Muskie came face-to-face with a dozen newsmen, several TV cameras pointed straight at his nose and five or six Vietnam Veterans Against the War who shouted pointed questions from behind the crowd. Muskie was patient with the newsmen but answered the questions of the Vietnam vets in textbook phrases...
...first punch he chipped my tooth. The second punch he belted my nose. The third punch I don't remember...
Others followed, few of them in the liberal mold of most existing Jewish journals. Berkeley produced the ultraprogressive Jewish Radical, Long Island University the conservative Dawn, Boston the polished, thoroughgoing genesis 2. The Jewish Liberation Journal, one of the few with a national circulation, began to bestow a nose-thumbing "Uncle Jake Award"; one in 1971 went to a Philadelphia Jewish group that gave a $50-a-plate dinner for then Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo, the hard-line law-and-order man who is now the city's mayor. At Washington University in St. Louis, a periodical appeared under...
...always "chasing Rimbauds." Alexander Woollcott knew of "a cat hospital where they charged $4 a weak purr." Heywood Broun, drinking a bootleg liquor, sighed, "Any port in a storm." "The groans that greet such puns," claims Milton Berle (who once joked that he had cut off his nose to spite his race), "are usually en vious. The other person wishes he had said...
Like his show, the tall Swedish-American with the potato nose and ice-bag hat jets to and fro between Los Angeles, Stockholm, London. In New York his studio is appropriately gargantuan, consisting of two connected five-story warehouses with an elevator so large that Oldenburg is proposing to furnish it as his living room. He has become, in effect, his own museum: a traveling exhibit, documented and catalogued and spewing out work with minatory gusto...