Word: polite
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prize for cheap shot of the week must go to the Washington Star-News for the lead on its story about the polit ical fallout of Congressman Wilbur Mills' gamy brush with police in Washington (see THE NATION). The article began: "Never get caught in bed with a dead woman or a live man. - Old Political Axiom." It went on to say that Mills "has not violated, so far as is known, that guiding proverb." In fact, as the paper's editors were surely aware, first reports concerned booze rather than sex. There were three women...
With the addition of "slapdash" and "ill-timed," that perfectly describes a new musical called More Than You De serve. Sponsored by Joseph Papp at his lower Manhattan dramatic -arts com plex, the Public Theater, it reflects his le gitimate dismay at the social and polit ical gangrene spread by the Viet Nam War. Unfortunately, it is difficult to transpose the My Lai massacre into a sick South Pacific. Nonetheless, if the hard-rock band does not split a play goer's skull, some of the farcically outrageous and libidinous goings-on may tickle his ribs...