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...existential futility, like trying to hide from a blizzard inside a freezer. Davies wrote that the premiere Tonight show "had catastrophically equated our national tastes with those of Benny Hill," then proceeded to nail Carson's guests, his audience, his tailoring and "a marmoset [that] peed endearingly on Johnny's head and an aardvark [that] shat in a sandbox." Nevertheless, Davies concluded his well-turned roast with an exemplary demonstration of fair play: "Against the run of all this evidence, I insist that Carson is worth having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Heerrre's Johnny: On the Spot | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...from his pocket and had it embedded in the concrete, saying, "Here, you might as well have my last cent." Also in the yard is a birdbath made out of a urinal from nearby Sloppy Joe's bar. The story is that Hemingway deserved it because he had peed away a fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Key West: The Last Resort | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...Brooks Peed was correct in reporting that I informed prospective resident tutors about the Administration's ban against "cohabitation." He erred, however, in saying I had "refused to explain the source" of my interpretation of the University's position. What I did refuse to do, of course, was to discuss with Mr. Peed any part of the contents of a confidential letter that, so far as I then knew, remained confidential...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON COHABITATION | 5/1/1975 | See Source »

...British commando received a message from headquarters: "You must retake Marina Beach." He wired back: "This is impossible. I've never lost it." In the dark, German Mark IV tanks were confused with U.S.-made Shermans. "D'you know,'' a British soldier muttered, "I actually peed against one of those tanks, thinking it was British. Blimey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nine-Day Nightmare | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

...almost total lack of directing. At the play's end, when the planes are flying over Heartbreak House and bombs are falling, the East House show crumbles right before your eyes. The play proceeds at an agonizingly slow pace until the final scene; then it races at breakneck peed over important and meaningful lines. The actors overact and over-scream consistently throughout most of the play; then there is an almost total lack of noise of excitement when the bomb falls. The bomb itself hits with a ping, instead of with a shattering roar. In short, the terrifying final scene...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Heartbreak House | 5/21/1962 | See Source »

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