Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Satire," in the immortal phrase of George S. Kaufman, "is what closes on Saturday night." With only a change in Sabbath eve, that maxim about the low box-office appeal of satire applies as much in Israel as anywhere else. But the reason isn't always audience apathy. A satirical revue called Jesus, As Seen by His Friends-a fairly savage commentary on Israel's government establishment by Playwright Amos Kenan-lasted for only seven performances before it was closed down by Levi Guery, the official government censor. Guery explained that he found the revue "offensive to another...
HENRY KISSINGER deplaned at Andrews Air Force Base after another bargaining session in Paris with Hanoi's Le Due Tho. A reporter asked, "Do you still think that 'peace is at hand'?" Replied Kissinger with a smile: "That's a great phrase. Who used...
...miracle of a moon landing-all these events were given an instant presence that no magazine could hope to duplicate. Yet, television is not quite photojournalism after all. There is something missing from even the finest TV coverage: perspective, among other things, but the subjects of that prescient phrase, the "shadows in the jungle and on the moon," linger on the page long after they have left the screen or the retina...
...into his own Troublesome Ivories, which turned out not to be troublesome at all. At the end of W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues, Blake set off a series of feathery right-hand twirls up the scale that must have been what was originally meant by the oft-abused phrase tickling the ivories...
...thought so and wrote a lot about walking, including an essay titled Walking to be read by people who were sitting. Thoreau provided a lot of health food for thought, including an explanation of the word "sauntering," which he saw as a fermentation of the medieval pilgrim's phrase, à la Sainte Terre-to the Holy Land...