Word: putdown
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...Happily, whenever the strife skitters closer to tragedy than comedy, Director Stanley Donen takes the viewer's eye off the brawl by ushering in William Daniels and Eleanor Bron parodying a WASPish American and his shrewish wife, or Claude Dauphin, whose jet-set bore is a perfect putdown...
...else are we here?" But a heavy breathing "I'm just back from Viet Nam" rates a sure putdown...
Says Lyricist Paul Simon, 24: "It's become out of style to lay yourself open, to approach people with your arms open. Everybody nowadays is closed up -the put-on, the putdown. It's tough to come on with your arms wide, knowing you may get kicked in the groin...
...means to the young is that they have exorcised sexual inhibitions. They are monogamous only if they choose to be; they claim to find the body neither shameful nor titillating, and sneer self-righteously at the adults who leer at "topless" waitresses. "Hung up on sex," is the putdown. Ironically, the revolt of the teeny hoppers on the Sunset Strip last November resulted in the demise of discotheques and the rise of "topless" clubs...
Irwin was not insulted; he was delighted to put up with the putdown. Unimpressible Jewish mothers-and surly children, complaining wives, urban sprawl and the 20th century-have been his bread and butter ever since he changed his name to Alan King and became, successively, a big-time comic, author, actor, producer and all-round impresario...