Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good gracious me," exclaims Momma Winger. "What won't that onery boy do next!" With this kind of talk it is not very surprising that Momma Winger's sprouting twelve-year-old son Newt turns out to be a high-spirited youth who would rather poke curiously into an anthill than do the family chores. Predictably, too, Newt is a bright lad, and getting on for a strong one. He is chosen to give the speech at his graduation. Put in late in a basketball game, he emerges as a high scorer. He defeats the local bully...
...matters worse by encouraging hoarding. But in fact, pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and half dollars are all in short supply, though the mints in Denver and Philadelphia are working around the clock to plink them out, and the American Bankers Association has requested its 13,125 member banks to poke around in their vaults for any stockpiled coins that could be put into circulation...
Bloodthirsty Marauders. But it is also possible that, after a decade of the half-forgotten Korean armistice, marked only by minor skirmishes and routine infiltration attempts, the Chinese-dominated North Koreans now want to prod and poke the U.S. For days, the North Korean radio has been ranting that the "U.S. imperialist troops'-must be driven from South Korea. Al week's end a sizable group of Communist soldiers boldly penetrated 500 yards into the U.S. sector and waged a two-hour skirmish with U.S. patrols...
Lewis as Kelp is a nimble simpleton. In Professor's nuttiest sight gag, somebody tosses him a pair of bar bells so ponderous that his arms get stretched to floor-length; that night in bed, when his sock-clad feet poke out of the bottom of the covers, a pair of hands reaches out alongside to give them a sleepy scratch. But Lewis as the alter-ego maniac Buddy Love is a maudlin letdown. Starlet Stevens best sums up the trouble: "Just being one person is more than enough for any human being to handle...
...accidental. "I'm thinking only about art and shapes," say Marisol. "If there is social comment, it seems to come out by itself." A sculpture called The Generals, in which two officers, who vaguely resemble Napoleonic marshals, sit astride the same horse, did not start out as a poke at the military. Marisol, it seems, was doing a sculpture of a friend, using a barrel for the torso, when she realized that if she tipped the barrel sideways she could have the torso of a horse. Legs and head were added, and then the two generals in all their...