Word: pies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy's motives and Taylor's plans, the armed forces have called a truce in their internecine feuds about budgets and missions; they have closed ranks for a possible cold war with the White House. Cracked one Pentagon civilian: "They've stopped arguing about how the pie gets cut up; they're worried there won't be any pie...
...judgeships, even offered to split them evenly between Republicans and Democrats. But the Democratic Congress, gambling that there would be a Democrat in the White House this year, ignored Ike's request, waited until last May to provide for the new judgeships, then baked itself the tastiest patronage pie in a long while by creating 73. Last week, in what was certain to become one of the running political fights of the year, the victors were quarreling over the spoils...
...that sort of a start in splitting its judicial patronage pie, it seemed certain that the Administration is going to have a livelier time than it likes...
When the pratfall and pie-in-the-puss comedy tires him, Comic Wisdom resorts to a genus of comedy that in seven films (all hits) and numberless TV shows he has failed to master: pantomime. While allowing himself to be duped by a charlatan of a music-hall star (played to seedy perfection by Jerry Desmonde), he lisps, giggles, gawks, grimaces, mugs and burbles. "Aggressive," is his psychiatrist's diagnosis at film's end. "I think you'd better grow up a little...
Edge deals with the basic stuff of drama -death, love, betrayal, loyalty and honor. But the Shakespearean richness of plot and prodigality with blood and tears is unmatched by a corresponding richness of language. The actors measure out their lives in coffee breaks. Cigarettes, coffee and apple pie (how eaten or refused) and tone of voice, rather than choice of words, become the idiom in which tragedy must express itself. In this. Edge is perhaps closer to the naturalistic convention than most prestigious art forms; the common man, after all, faces the crises of life with a First Reader vocabulary...