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...unhappy hunting grounds of the Apaches. There, he discovers a troupe of junketing European aristocrats, including Brigitte Bardot, Jack Hawkins and Honor Blackman, sipping drinks with pinkies extended, trading salon witticisms and plugging mountain lions from close range. Classic examples of the unspeakable pursuing the uneatable, the hunters blithely pooh-pooh Connery's warning that the Injuns are on a scalptingling expedition. Miffed, Shalako sulks off to wait for the redskins to do their worst to the unwary tourists...
...Marting pooh-poohs the professional scouts who claim Dowling's three-quarter delivery and his tendency to scramble from the pocket will limit his effectiveness as a pro. "Brian is a great athlete and he can adjust his style if necessary," Marting insists...
...appeared confident, if visibly strained in the end. Part of it, perhaps, was the politician's façade. But part was genuine. This was, after all, his last chance and it would hardly do to lose control at the very end. Pooh-poohing the pollsters, Nixon predicted that he would outdraw Humphrey by 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 votes...
Accusations of cronyism in the appointments were pooh-poohed by everyone from the Times to Senator Everett Dirksen ("The President surely wouldn't go out looking for enemies to put on the court, now would he?"). But, the Times itself reported, after the junior justice had already been on the bench for more than a year, "Fortas's involvement in the President's life seems total," and he appears "the most intimate and omnipresent of the President's friends and advisors...
...that?" asked one bored spectator. Answered another: "Only Senator Javits." With all the glamour around, there was no reason for a mere political pooh-bah to titillate the thousands who assembled outside Broadway's Criterion Theater for the benefit premiere of Funny Girl, the movie musical of the life of Fanny Brice. George Segal showed up in a double-breasted Nehru jacket, Rod Steiger in a black shirt with gold medallion, and Leading Man Omar Sharif in an old-fashioned tuxedo with wide peaked lapels. But all oohs and ahs were for the star of the spectacle, Brooklyn...