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There are some regular features, including Jim Henson and his Muppets, from Sesame Street, and Chevy Chase's Weekend Update. Chevy, who started as a writer on the show (see box), is fast becoming its comedy star. He is a tall, conventional-looking young man, who opens a rude and funny parody of the nation's newscasters with "I'm Chevy Chase-and you're not." His news breaks are bizarre: "Vandals broke into the Louvre and attached arms onto the Venus de Milo." His favorite long-running story is: "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still seriously...
Ritual pairings of the sexes seem less obligatory. Many hostesses no longer worry about having equal numbers of men and women at a dinner party. It is regarded as awkward, if not rude, to pair men and women at such occasions or to insist on "boy-girl" seating at the table. The 19th century after-dinner protocol of sexual segregation-at least where initiated by men-has long been fading. Such formality persists in some Washington circles. But last August, when she was asked to "join the ladies" after dinner at a party given by Averell Harriman, Washington Post Reporter...
...astonished Apostles after his resurrection. But he had been circumcised in the temple as an infant, and the Holy Foreskin, preserved by a succession of devout guardians, is said to have found its way eventually into the sanctum sanctorum of the Vatican. A German mercenary laid his rude hands on it during the Sack of Rome in 1527 and stole it away; it was lost for 30 years and then turned up in Calcata, where this new reliquary was made for it. It has been there, but not on public view, ever since. How edifying, the accidents of history...
RESTIC: I wish I had the time, but things have been really hectic around here. Besides John, you were, and I really hate to say this, but I've been simmering for 52 weeks, and, well, you were pretty rude, being a guest and all, at last year's affair...
...provoke your subjects to such anger and emotion? Fellini called you a rude little bitch...