Word: potshot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upon a screen, to the accompaniment of March of Time-type music and the pontifical voice of a news commentator. The idiocyncrasies of the Luce Press are favorite sport among the satirists this season anyhow, and so--you say to yourself, perhaps--here is musical comedy's own gay potshot at grey-eyed, balding China-born Henry Luce. But disillusionment, as occasionally it must to all theatergoers, came last night to this reviewer. Yaleman Harvey Small (Luce) is soon lost in the shuffle of calico and cowboy boots and does not reappear until way into the last...
...slapstick, gotten up as an elaborate spoof of Hollywood westerns, quickly gets out of hand. So does Grable. As a pistol-packing hussy in bustles, Betty takes a potshot at her wayward boy friend (Cesar Romero), nicks instead the wrong end of the local judge. While wriggling out of a jail sentence, she again flies off the handle, again dents the judge in the rear. In the last reel she does it a third time...
While things were relatively quiet, someone from Thayer took a successful potshot with a snowball at one of the Yard cops. The startled officer dashed after the prankster and both disappeared into Thayer's Middle entry...
Along with this frontal attack came a potshot from within McNaughton's own Liberal Party, and the Cabinet itself. In Ottawa's Press Gallery, Navy Minister Angus L. Macdonald plunked himself down behind the green-topped poker table, answered a question thrown out by Ken Cragg of the Tory-minded Toronto Globe & Mail: "What about this business of ships being sunk...
Hardly any of this is as interesting as the improvising that Bendix (materially assisted by Miranda) does with the King's English. As an ambitious nightclub entrepreneur, he substitutes affability for finesse and rides to glory as a Broadway producer, pausing periodically to potshot people who think high-flown language is better than low-blown horse sense...