Word: pail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grunting through a rainy afternoon, the Pigs triumphed over the Goats by a score of 19-0 at Eastern Michigan University, winning the cherished Pig Bowl trophy-a slop pail. The real winners, however, were needy children of the Ann Arbor area. Some 3,000 tickets were sold for the benefit game to buy Christmas toys. The Pig Bowl was also, in a small way, a victory for reason and humor. The Goats were none other than the police of Ann Arbor, and the Pigs were the Washtenaw County sheriff's deputies, who know how to put an epithet...
...bounces onto the stage, pastes on her pretty Barbie-doll smile, and ingenuously asks: "Is it sock-it-to-me time yet?" The answer, of course, is a pail of water in the chops, the staple gag of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In that has made Judy Carne the soggiest show girl since Esther Williams. Now, after two years of the routine, Judy's enthusiasm has dampened. In London to film All the Right Noises, she allowed that next season might be her last with the bucket brigade. "I'm fed up with the sock...
What, then, remains of the traditional doctrine? "The term original sin," University of Chicago Theologian Joseph Sittler says, "remains as a kind of pail which we've drained of the old literal statements and refilled with quite new interpretations. The doctrine meant to point to the gravity, the universality, and the demonic results of evil. And the language was a way of stating this. But we no longer buy the old notion of biological transmission or try to have a system of inheritance. The notion of 'original' means profound-trans-individual, way back and deep down...
Early on the morning of Election Day, Allard K. Lowenstein was trying to get Long Island commuters to stop and shake his hand. In between trains, he quietly picked some of his campaign literature out of the garbage pail. A heavy-set man wearing a Nixon button glared at one of the girls helping Lowenstein. "I'd never vote for him," he said. "I'm a policeman...
...visual humor is often more original than the verbal kind. True, the show's basic gag, endlessly repeated, is throwing a pail of water at an endlessly unsuspecting girl-as simple as Punch being whacked over the head or a clown being squirted with Seltzer water, and somehow disarmingly innocent. Periodically, a bikini-clad girl is shown dancing the boogaloo; then the camera moves in to reveal that the girl is painted head to feet with silly graffiti. Other sight gags are madly literal-minded or engagingly sly. When the announcer calls for a station break, the camera will...