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...funny, funny play, and you'll probably laugh yourself silly. "The Vatican Rag" has long been one of my favorite spoof songs, and The Greatest Musical Ever Sung shares (if only fitfully) much of its vigor. If you still take your eucharist seriously, go to the Prudential or something; if not, there's still time to hear the Pharisees do a splendid barbershop quartet. Yuks per minute, its a lot easier going than Levi-Strauss...
...advertising program of the Company described in the prospectus: "The Company's advertising is carried on domestically by its Chief Executive Officer on network television at prime time, free of charge." On the other hand, Tauber's production is in better financial shape than his spoof reports for the Company: "No balance sheet has been included in this Registration Statement, as the Company may be deemed insolvent as defined by generally accepted auditing and accounting standards...
Spiro Agnew, the Administration's house curmudgeon, opened his office to newsmen and television cameras, beaming broadly as he gave his blessing to products meant to spoof him-Spiro Agnew T shirts, Spiro Agnew watches modeled on the Mickey Mouse design (TIME, July 6). Instead of fuming, Agnew co-opted the satire: advance payments and royalties from the manufacturers will go to a charity supporting American Indian children and to an organization of families of American servicemen taken prisoner or missing in Southeast Asia. "The real reason I'm here," Agnew joked on the Tonight Show, "is that...
...another Phantom over the Suez Canal last week-the third shot down in three weeks by SA-2 missiles. Israeli technicians are certain that they know why. The new missiles were tuned to a new range of frequencies, and the electronic countermeasure (ECM) devices carried by Israeli jets to spoof or confuse attacking missiles were not capable of picking up those frequencies. The Phantom pilots, wrongly assuming that their ECMs would divert onrushing missiles, were unable to take evasive action in time...
Were Francis Hopkinson alive today, he would have found ample material for a ditty on the battle for Bicentennial City in 1976 instead of a spoof on the British Army's panic...