Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many ways typical of the tenor of the whole campaign. Kennedy sat with schoolboy composure, taking notes and speaking calmly. Nixon added to the annals of history's best bloopers with a remark about solving the farm problem by abolishing the farmers. And at Agassiz, three 'Cliffies fell asleep...
...will tell you something," Elaine will say cooperatively, "but I warn you it is a lie.") Elaine has never remarried, and Mike is separated. Since neither makes any sort of conscious effort to search for new ideas-the birth of a sketch is usually accomplished with a simple remark, such as "You be a dentist. I'll be a patient"-they read miscellaneously. Nichols enjoys his subscription to Dog World, even though he has given up his Saint Bernard, reads Nancy Mitford and Mary McCarthy, never looks at Variety. Elaine is intermittently writing a play for herself and Nichols...
...mime. Marceau is almost as remark able for range as for dexterity; even in a slightly too long evening, there is little sense of repetition. There is great range of emotional and comic effects; of human activity, as with a man engaging in all the attractions of a fair; and of human types, as in catching the whole varied life of a public garden. As a park-bench gossip or seasick voyager, Marceau is hilarious; as high-wire performer, he can be both hilarious and terrifying; as a mask maker pulling masks on and off with lightning speed and ending...
...presidential candidates. Joe Curran, a spear-bearer of the Kennedy camp, at first told newsmen that Khrushchev felt that Kennedy would be a "sensible" President. But just in case the Kennedy camp was worried about Joe Curran's failure to qualify K.'s kiss-of-death remark, Curran hastened to say, a bit later on TV's Meet the Press, that what he really had meant was that Khrushchev is afraid of Jack Kennedy. In fact, said Joe, "he hates Kennedy." As for Dick Nixon, Curran reported that Khrushchev has only contempt for the Vice President...
...York state senate once derided a bill as being "as old and wrinkled as a warmed-over Coney Island hot dog," Nathan's indignantly fired off a batch of hot dogs to the state capital. The offending senator ate one and asked to have his remark stricken from the record...