Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Norwalk is not a real name, but the case is a real one. And it is augmented by the hundreds of students here who have felt the frustration and the sting of rejection from a restricted major...
...What makes Richard Nixon such a fascinating figure is his beelike ability to avoid the swatter and still deliver the sting. Virtually against the full weight of public opinion, he has often outmaneuvered his opponents and preserved the appearance of bona fide leadership. But he is a flawed and faulted figure today because he does not understand the American society of the '70s. He has failed to perceive that the turbulence of the preceding decade ushered in a new era of public accountability in which previous standards of political conduct are no longer acceptable...
...Complaint, the public flowering of the Henny Youngman Roth, the brilliant cocktail-party mimic, hilarious storyteller and improviser of ingenious bits. His university degrees were set aside for the lessons learned on Newark's front stoops, where wisecracks and putdowns were the comic antitoxins against WASP sting and the guilt that could result from calling chicken soup consomm...
...Stuart links Wattstax together with some hilarious monologues by Comic Richard Pryor, who wrings laughs from such shared frustration and humiliation. His stories of everyday hassling, of being regularly rousted by the cops, are spun out in street jargon with a kind of furious cool. What makes the jokes sting is not punch lines but lethal accuracy...
...world champion was Muhammad Ali. Ali's majordomo. Drew Bundini, who captured the ring essence of Ali in his famous exhortation to him to "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee," had an equally elegant explanation of why Ali, stripped of his title for refusing to be drafted, retained the status of world champion. "The world," Drew Bundini said, "is a black shirt with a few white buttons...