Word: smartass
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...over the episode about homosexuality that President Nixon so disliked; last winter, a show on which Son-in-Law Mike's exam jitters made him sexually impotent. Smaller crises abound, as when CBS succeeded in knocking out the word "Mafia" from one script, the term "smartass" from another...
Woody Allen reminds me of the class comedian in high school. You know, the one who always had smartass answers to the teacher's questions and who gave the teacher the finger as soon as she turned her back. He was always doing something clever like carving pornographic couplets into his desk or trying to sneak into the girls washroom just so they would scream and all the boys would giggle. Woody Allen has carried this comic style into adult movies with his film Everything You Always Wanted to Know etc. In response to the serious queries of Dr. David...
...stage apotheosis of the late Lenny Bruce as Taboo Breaker. In Lenny, which opened on Broadway last week, the stand-up comic with the dirty mouth who died five years ago of a heroin overdose at the age of 40 has become a folk hero of the counterculture. The smartass kid from New York with his run-of-the-strip-joint shtiks ends by challenging the hypocrisies and fears and inequities of the whole square world out there...
...town the night she became twenty-one. Patty who chain-smoked, Patty who felt good for the first time in a long sad time because I was the first guy who treated her like a lady, to use her just right sounding words, me, the gangly, goofy, blushing, cowlicky, smartass, shynose sloppy lunch eater ... (the salad fell out of my mouth, Nancy. Patty's bouncy best friend, used to sit across from me every lunch period to watch the salad fall out of my mouth) the guy who didn't know how to dance, went to Catholic school while...
...While it's certainly true that women are not being paid the same wages as men or accorded the same business acumen, it is also true that no man likes a "smartass broad." Women were meant to be lovers, not fighters...