Word: ribbings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cancer; in Greenport, N.Y. In 1940 Ford teamed with Comedians Harry Hershfield and Joe Laurie Jr. to challenge radio audiences to a game of comic oneupmanship; at its peak the show attracted 10,000 jokes a week from a regular audience of 10 million listeners. Typical Ford rib-tickler: "Professor to student: 'Give me a definition of syntax.' Student to professor: 'My God, have they got a tax on that...
...many problems that he sometimes admires the ability of the lower species to romp around in merry ignorance until death, unpondered and unlamented, picks them off. The "advantages" of the mortal sensibility amount to a conception of life as a glorified Supermarket Sweepstakes, where experiences are chucked like frozen rib-roasts into speeding shopping carts which must be full before the time expires...
...gushed Rudi when they returned. A cosmetician applied a thin coat of flesh-colored makeup to their naked bodies, and it was time to get into their costumes, such as they were. Both models dressed identically in black-and-white monokinis, covered with white knit bell-bottom trousers and rib-length black-and-white tank tops. Then, while photographers snapped pictures and Gernreich gave cues and directions, the models rehearsed their act for the show. Off came the tank tops. Down dropped the trousers. The monokinis slid slowly to the floor. After stepping to one side, Tom and Renee stood...