Word: tickler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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COLE PORTER, the famed ivory-tickler, chain-smoker and song-writer, was born in Peru, Indiana, in 1891 and--ever the New York jet set's suave darling--died in 1964. His portfolio of hit Broadway musicals includes Gay Divorce, Anything Goes, and DuBarry Was a Lady. He materialized recently at the opening night of the Kirkland House production of Kiss Me, Kate. A reporter quizzed him on his views of the performance...
...Help Establish a Palestinian State?" Associate professor of Government Joel Migdal will take the affirmative. Migdal is presently completing a study of changes among West Bank Palestinian Arabs under the impact of military rule since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. He will debate Boston Israeli Consul Colette Avitel. (Tickler: Fear and Loathing comes to Cambridge a week from today...
Shoot the Piano Player, Francois Truffaut's two-toned lament for a thin-skinned ivory-tickler. With Smiles of a Summer Night, a period comedy of lost aspirations--one of Bergman's best. Through March 2. The 400 Blows, the first Truffaut, a sensitive study of a tough youth's progress. 2:30, 6:05, 9:40, with Rules of the Game, beginning March...
...cancer; in Greenport, N.Y. In 1940 Ford teamed with Comedians Harry Hershfield and Joe Laurie Jr. to challenge radio audiences to a game of comic oneupmanship; at its peak the show attracted 10,000 jokes a week from a regular audience of 10 million listeners. Typical Ford rib-tickler: "Professor to student: 'Give me a definition of syntax.' Student to professor: 'My God, have they got a tax on that...