Word: rowan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long list of sexual terms from blues or jazz that have passed into respectable everyday language. Having come to prominence through such recordings as Aretha's and Mitch Ryder's, "Sock it to me" is now used in a neutral sense as a catch-phrase on TV's Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and is a common sight on bumper stickers and even political placards. Jazz (originally a copulative verb) and rock 'n' roll (from a blues lyric, "My baby rocks me with a steady roll") are other examples...
...CHAMPIONS (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Rowan and Martin's summer replacement is anything but a laughin: three supercrime fighters, who tackle next-to-impossible missions assigned to them by Nemesis, an international organization dedicated to law, order and peace. Premi...
...called Laugh-In, and the hosts are a pair of 40-year-old manics in monkey suits named Dan Rowan and Dick Martin. They devised the idea for the show last year, but its viability wasn't certain until it was given the sure kiss of success: all the Hollywood hotshots said it couldn't be done. A full hour of nothing but comedy? No dancers? No guest crooners? No lavish production numbers? Impossible. So, when the show debuted six weeks ago during the deep doldrums of TV's midseason, it came on like a fanfare...
...President may not always be right," says one girl, "but you have to admit one thing: he's consistent!" Adds another: "Boris says he won't believe it till he hears L.B.J. deny it." In one skit, Rowan interviews Moses as he demonstrates against the pharaoh, who is "discriminating against us just because we've got long hair, beards and wear sandals." Rowan: "Gee, I can't imagine anyone feeling that way. How is it going?" Moses: "Badly! The pharaoh says it's O.K. to dissent so long as you don't disagree with...
...taller than when her people get to their knees." Then he added: "I can, and I do, tell you that in these long nights your President prays." Thanks to Johnson's restrained approach, what might have been at least a mini-crisis-the collision of the U.S. destroyer Rowan and a Russian merchantman in the Sea of Japan, 95 miles off South Korea-was treated as if it were a two-car collision on Route 66 and stirred little concern...