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...science exhibit for children eight to twelve years old (even the low-slung staircases are built to discourage adults) is one of the fair's best shows. Here kids can poke their arms into plastic sleeves to see how heavy a grapefruit is on Mars, spin on a platform by tilting a giant gyroscope, make wave patterns in water tanks, and watch a 40,000-member ant colony go busily about its cutaway civic activities...
Vaguely resembling refugees from about five different grade B pictures, the (choke) lovable characters from Soc Sci 2 gathered under the aegis of the Lowell House Drama Society Saturday and Sunday nights to poke this hallowed corner of the academic world full of large and funny holes...
...consider subversion the legitimate province of the satirist. If he's not in the business to overthrow one institution or another; if he's only in the business to poke irreverent but gentle fun, to amuse without biting, to comment without caring then, in my terms, he may be a lampoonist or a parodist or a light humorist, but he's not a satirist. A humorist will hold up a mirror, look at its reflection chuckle warmly and say "Well it's silly but its not such a bad reflection after all"; a satirist will have a darker view. That...
...girl cutting his toenails while another officer preens before a mirror, is a hilarious lampoon of Gallic lust and vanity. In The Return, Portsmouth Point and The Great Hall (for which Rowlandson farmed out the background, did only the figures), the satirist turned on his native land to poke fun at the rowdiness of the toughs and the smugness of the toffs. But beyond the brawling and posturing lie England's manicured countryside, its proud fleet and its stately halls-eloquent testimony, lovingly brushed, that the world of Thomas Rowlandson was not inhabited by knaves and fools alone...
...flying wedge of policemen forced an opening for the Mercedes, and in the melee a picket took a poke at a patrolman and was arrested. Another picket, Gloyd Richards, 40, swore out a complaint charging that athletic, 6-ft. 4-in. Egbert had dramatically offered to take on pickets "one at a time." Egbert was taken to a police station on a disorderly conduct charge and freed on $50 bail. Later he went on television, said that Striker Richards had "made a whale out of a min now." Egbert was soon receiving telegrams praising him for what he was accused...