Word: ribald
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...decorated the noses of American bombers in World War II is making a comeback. Since July, approximately 30 B-52 bombers assigned to the Eighth Air Force in Louisiana have sported 1940s-style snout art. The original creations ranged from feisty cartoon mice to bare-breasted bimbos accompanied by ribald slogans. But in deference to feminist sensibilities, the new versions are much more modest...
...Cafe, on Boylston Place,was a little too damn cheerful. Walking in thedoor, I almost smacked into a wooden parrot.Hanging from the ceiling above was a largemenagerie of coy animals; an inflatable iguana, ashark, a toad or two. By the door was a plaquewith the Sweetwater's legend, a ribald and twistedtale that boiled down to "We made...
...work demands a suspension of disbelief. One for His Lordship, and One for the Road! is a plausibly ribald bar story. In a little Irish village, Lord Kilgotten passes on, after demanding that the rare and valuable contents of his wine cellar be poured into his grave. The idea of such waste appalls the thirsty villagers, who ingeniously honor the letter of the will by voiding the vintage. A literary joke provides the spine of Long Division. Splitting up their family and their library, a divorcing couple vehemently argue about the allocation of each beloved novel, history and biography. Several...
...driven and, yes, too arrogant to be satisfied with speaking to impressionable sophomores in half-empty auditoriums, just another penitent on the lecture circuit. With the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary two months away, Hart was still pushing position papers in purgatory, forgotten except as a ribald footnote to the 1988 race...
...destruction of a public man holds a terrible fascination. One watches transfixed, yet ashamed, as personal dignity gives way to political desperation and hard-won respect is replaced by ribald laughter. It is an ugly spectacle, part Greek tragedy and part game-show television. Character becomes fate as hubris is defined anew. Yet the rituals of humiliation are straight Marshall McLuhan; the medium is the message as the cornered politician endures the prescribed sequence of televised statements, beginning with a tight-lipped acknowledgment of errors in judgment and ending with defiant surrender. So the political process is purified yet again...