Word: rogerism
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...British Commonwealth, the 50s was a decade of great achievers: Sir Edmund Hillary, Roger Bannister, the Goons. The weekly radio show starring Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers defined silly comedy for postwar England, influenced the Beatles and Monty Python, and made me laugh when I listened to the shows on CD last year for a column on Sellers. Puns, outlandish narrative detours and other foolery are wildly evident in Milligan?s scripts. In the ?Ill Met by Goonlight? episode, the Goons land on Crete. Sellers: ?Ooh, this beach is hard.? Secombe: ?Then we must be on con-Crete...
...really. There's an official No. 1, of course - the American Andy Roddick - but only the tennis nuts would know that for sure. Nearly everyone else would be tossing up between Roddick, the ageing great Andre Agassi, that Swiss guy who's trying to bring back bandanas (Roger Federer) or perhaps the handsome Spaniard with a name like a fast car (Juan Carlos Ferrero). Nowadays, no one's much surprised when a Top 10 player loses to anyone who wields a racket for a living...
...Beverly can command the attention of an entire table in the dining hall,” says Roger Porter, IBM professor of government and business and Dunster House master. “One evening, eight members of the basketball team were dining in Dunster House after practice. I walked over to wish them well and ended up standing behind Beverly for nearly 30 seconds, waiting for a break in the conversation. Beverly obviously could not see me, but the others did, and almost broke into laughter as she kept talking in a very animated...
...ability to keep a program moving quickly and [engage] the audience, which for a television program is absolutely essential,” says Dunster House Master and IBM Professor of Government and Business Roger B. Porter, who attended the taping of last night’s interview with Democratic presidential candidate Wesley K. Clark...
...will” except when asked to “lose your virginity” by “someone with whom you have no affinity.” The choreography, by Katharine F. O’Brien ’04, was uneven; Gordon and Roger had a dashing tango, and Bungee’s dances brought out his ingratiating cheer, but much of the time the singers just stood around or aimlessly rushed back and forth...