Word: ribbing
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...biggest subject: sexual habits and stereotypes. In everything but anatomy and dress, the women are men and the men are women. Out of that basic conceit flow-or, more precisely, meander-all jokes and situations. "Our premise is simple," explains Lear. "God created Eve first, took out her rib and gave her a companion so she wouldn't be lonely. This was Adam. I think the audience will be fascinated to watch the endless role playing and, more important, to discern the similarities in the needs, hopes and fears shared by all human beings, regardless of gender...
...natural talent for performing, and two men who do. It is the old women in the story who claim the greatest attention. They are tart and perceptive, with matching dialogue-not surprising from the man who wrote Born Yesterday and Adam's Rib. "You make me most uneasy," one of them remarks accurately at Kanin's snooping. "You seem detectivy, in a nasty way." Defeated by the complications he uncovers, the sleuth forsakes the project-as a screenplay...
Marriage Revealed. Ken Howard, 33, tall, blond actor on Broadway (Seesaw) and TV (Adam's Rib); and Margo Coleman, 37, freelance writer and daughter of Columnist Ann Landers; she for the third time, he for the second; on March 13 in Chicago, three months after he opened in Equus and she interviewed him for the Chicago Daily News...
...will probably make the second team this year behind the Yale grappler who administered D'Agostino's lone loss when Sal was forced by the team score to gamble for a pin. Ely and D'Agostino did not meet because the Crimson matman missed the Princeton mat with a rib injury...
...plot of land, and he met a bookie who would let him play the ponies at $2,000 a crack. But, he claimed, he "found out that it was a scam [a con game] and had the guy beat up. They broke one side of his rib cage. He had taken me for a bunch...