Word: patters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago, jokes about the star-crossed Edsel were a part of almost every comedian's patter. For employees at Ford's Lincoln-Mercury Division, which produced the car, it only hurt when audiences laughed. Bedeviled by bad timing and uneven management, the whole division had become a career junkyard for faltering executives and a rugged boot camp for beginners. Beyond Edsel, Lincoln-Mercury's models offered little individuality. They were nothing but larger, costlier Fords. Sales fell so low that many Lincoln-Mercury dealers were forced to depend on used-car sales...
...move in reverse, a feat whose parallel can only be found in the trickery that cinema allows. The second crescendo is Alexis Smith's Story of Lucy and Jessie, a flame-red, high-kicking number in the old top-hat-and-tails tradition, an echo of a Cole Porter patter song...
...Lord Chancellor, Jack Marshall is utterly brilliant, a black-robed Harlequin who handles both his serious singing and his patter song quite well, doing a fine interpretation of "When you're lying awake..." as a much more sinister song than most singers make it. Nancy Urquhart as the Queen of the Fairies, and Lisa Landis as Phyllis, the other as the tender young maid-a commonplace G and S device, but a good one. Oliver Twom are both very good, one as an elderly Victoria type, bly and Karl Deirup are fine as Lords, but William Pomeroy's Strephon...
...that Egypt is not war weary enough to beg for peace and negotiate away territory. The scene in Tanta was a far cry from Sadat's first executive address before the National Assembly last October, when he was so unsure of himself that he drew only a polite patter of handclaps. Sadat became the butt of jokes. Now the jokes are subsiding. "No doubt about it," says a U.S. State Department official, "Sadat is the leader of Egypt." "You know," adds a top Israeli diplomat, "I'm beginning to feel that we underestimated this fellow...
...helicopter raid on Son Tay last week, it became clear that the raid was far more than a humanitarian gesture intended to get some of the estimated 378 American prisoners home for Thanksgiving turkey. The contradictory statements, clumsy lies and badly timed revelations, like a magician's facile patter, distracted and confused almost everyone. But the evidence is mounting that the Administration is using the prisoners of war as emotional tokens in a cynical and dangerous game...