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Kaufman's most familiar incarnation is also his most comforting, a benign extension of Foreign Man tailored for situation comedy and appearing weekly, under the name Latka Gravas, on ABC's smash sitcom Taxi. But Latka fans who sought out Kaufman at his frequent unscheduled appearances at comedy clubs or who checked out his recent concert at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall got something of a shock. Lovable Latka is there all right, but reduced to supporting status; his cute malapropisms ("America is a tough town") are cut entirely; only his accent, and the loony-tune vocabulary, remain...
...wanted Scotch to take me off to sleep....My mind just kept driving. I hoped it would take a wrong turn and smash itself against a concrete divider. I was going someplace fast, weaving toward it. Finally, my mind swung through a turn and hit the brakes...
With Roberts "frozen" according to Shaw, Chaikovsky became the Bionic Volleyer, playing eight straight balls but putting none away. Finally, the Big Red launched a deep lob to Roberts' side, hit an overhead smash that neither Cornell player had a chance...
...secretive about the way Speak & Spell works that competitors are buying the toy just to smash it and recover the chip. The Texas company has managed to put a fairly large vocabulary onto a computer chip at low cost. With that, synthetic speech becomes possible in many consumer products. Washing machines could gurgle when the suds get too high, and the refrigerator could snarl at the midnight raider. But what, the best brains in Detroit are wondering, will happen when a driver's eight-track quadraphonic recording of Disco Queen Donna Summer is interrupted by a disembodied voice warning...
...most exciting thing about watching the Harvard varsity baseball squad stomp MIT yesterday was betting on whether the errant fly balls would smash the wind-shields of cars passing along the first base line...