Word: poked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...annoy her too much," he said as we approached a blue-footed booby that had decided to nest directly in our path. But even the guide, a serious young Australian biologist named Bob Close, could not resist the temptation, along with the rest of us, to poke a camera right in the face of the comic bird with the garishly colored webbed feet. The booby blithely continued to sit on her two eggs while the cameras clicked away. Said Close: "You would think that after having hundreds of tourists parade by them they would have learned to pick a more...
...tunes on Some Girls are profound, however. "Respectable" and "Lies" are two lowdown Chuck Berry-style floor-stompers reminiscent of tunes like "Star Star" and "Rip This Joint." "Respectable" takes and iron poke at the Stones' respected place in society before moving into a fairly standard denunciation of a "respectable" (read phony) woman...
Irrelevant? Sure, but why not occasionally, to keep the sharp people on their toes and to poke ambiguous fun at programs and competitiveness that were incapable of definition, journalistic or otherwise...
...into an integrated whole. Holly Whipple's glib "In Sequins and Out," on the other hand, merely manipulated surfaces, whether of theatrical convention or of psychological cliche. The plot was straight out of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," predictable from start to finish, though it detoured along the way to poke fun with elephantine subtlety at ballet, tap, show-dancing, stage mothers and theater people in general. Small girl, repulsively well-scrubbed, trips off to dance class. Glitteringly costumed dancers enter to whir through various routines like wind-up toys. Small girl joins them, they acclaim her: fantasy fulfilled. Suddenly, hints...
...Bingham roundtripper, his second in two games, was a little less influential than his three-run poke against UMass (it came in the ninth to make the score 5-0), but not without a certain amount of clout, as it finally came to roost about twenty feet past the right field snow fence at Briggs Field...