Word: razz
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...ahead of the times and once in a while turned, bowed low, gave the times a razz and dared them to catch up. The slow songs were heart stoppers, the fast ones adrenaline rushes of wit, low-down love and high, fabulous adventure. The songs became, all together, an orchestration of a generation's best hopes and fondest dreams...
...first game senior Paul McOsker relieved sore-shouldered starter Ron Stewart in the second inning, and the lanky lefty ("Hey, who put the uniform on the fungo?" was the razz line at Cornell) proceeded to hual his finest stint since he one-hit Princeton two years ago. McOsker brought his record to 3-1 for the year, yielding only two hits and three walks in six innings...
...incredible amount of pressure on him, the man who replaced Ted Williams. And since '67 he has flirted with the hopes of the people dangerously: when he fails to come through, the fans reserve their most exquisite fury. When he doesn't hustle to first they razz him. When he applies his talent for appallingly stupid base-running ran all-star from the neck down. white Sox manager Eddie Stanky once said) or fields half-heatedly at first base, his new stable in the field (left field, his time-honored turf in the past, is traversed by friskeir souls...
Wolfe clearly feels at home amongst this counter-society (one hesitates to call it a culture ) and is quite willing to use his razz-ma-tazz prose to further his subjects' own ends. He's caught on to the fact that the most revealing documentation of modern day America is carried on through the voice of the press release. (PR, you may remember, was even invented by an American, Cambridge's own Edward Bernays.) So when Wolfe takes off on his great tirades of trade names and trivia, the neon flashing in his eyes, the fury of apocalypse heavy...
Hubert Humphrey, of course, has passed up no opportunity to razz Agnew about any of his gaffes and to remind voters of how close he would be to the presidency in the event of a G.O.P. victory. "Think," Humphrey demanded of audiences last week. "President Agnew and President LeMay...