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...world's biggest pimple" and "the domedest thing y'ever saw." Cynics set store by the fact that the fast-food company that will operate 40 hot-dog stands in the Superdome calls its piece de resistance, a sausage-and-French-bread sandwich, "Pig in a Poke"-a sobriquet that many seem to think fits the Superdome itself. Others, like Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, prefer to think of it as "the greatest structure of its kind ever envisioned by mankind." One of its throatiest boosters has been New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu, a canny politician who calls...
...real and depressing subject matter from which Nichols shaped a lot of very funny scenes. The relationship of humor to unhappy truth was accurate. If he conceived The Fortune as homage/satire about the vaudeville era, he forgot what Mel Brooks proved in Young Frankenstein: that the best way to poke fun at past cinematic formulas is still to take them seriously. He gave us buffoonery but it was a joke we didn't catch. The grimy, bourgeois wit of his earlier films was more perceptive and more easily shared...
...about the country is impossible without a travel permit. Every forum for publicly criticizing the government or party has been destroyed. To break down the traditional Korean family structure, the Communist leadership ordered that lineage records be burned. Neighborhood mutual-surveillance teams have been established with the right to poke into the most private family affairs...
From all of this, Ford emerges as a descent and likeable fellow, if for not other reason than that he allowed a perceptive novelist to poke around his office for a week. What Ford has over his recent predecessors is an air of confidence and "serenity." He tells Hersey that he hates "petty jealousies" among his staff worst of all, while Nixon seemed to thrive on them, and his tolerance for criticism stands cut in contrast to Johnson's vindictiveness...
...applicant's regional group. The committee may spend any where from a few seconds on a case with a 'six' profile to an hour and forty-five minutes on a toughone Occassionally, Reardon said, tempers get out of hand in the committee. "I've seen one person take a poke at another person. It doesn't happen very often...When you're dealing with that kind of stress over a number of days, there are some disagreements that get sort of personalized...