Word: rabelaisian
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...Palladium to applaud 68-year-old Sophie ("Last of the Red-Hot Mammas") Tucker on the 30th anniversary of her first appearance in Britain. Next morning the critics added their cheers. Said the News Chronicle: "She is as irresistible as a steam roller. She is Miltonic as well as Rabelaisian; for she is full of 'nods and becks and wreathed smiles' and is the personification of 'sport that wrinkled care derides...
Remembering a few classics of the good old uninhibited days (like the Walt Disney cow whose udder swayed like a cootch dancer when she ran), Lantz complains: "We can't even draw all of a cow any more." But he admits that cartoonists are likely to be too Rabelaisian to be trusted: "If you give some animators an inch, they might take ten feet...
...asked Congress for a transfusion," cried Price Boss Di Salle last week, "and they gave us an enema." Like the rest of the Administration, Rabelaisian Mike Di Salle was wailing that the weakened controls law threatened imminent inflation. But last week it was plain that an older law-supply and demand-was still at work. Instead of rising, a lot of prices were falling...
...only by Shakespeare and Cervantes. Rabelais, by ancient (78) English Novelist-Essayist John Cowper Powys, enfolds the jolly old cleric in a loose shirt of verbiage that he would surely have found too hairy for comfort; The Laughing Philosopher, by M. P. Willcocks, sometimes muffles the Rabelaisian laughter in a modesty he certainly never felt. Yet both books bring back a strong, winey breath of the most exuberant of writers from Aristophanes to Balzac; a man who drank life to the drains, and then couldn't deny himself the loudest belch in literature...
...Thing had an inexorable calliope-style tune, utterly undistinguished and not even new. Charles Grean of RCA Victor's own popular records staff had merely borrowed the tune of a Rabelaisian old ditty called The Tailor's Boy, and given it new lyrics. The teaser: Grean's storytelling lyrics never do specify what "the thing" is; they just pause while Singer Phil Harris suggestively waits for three resounding booms of the bass drum. Sample...