Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excited the comedy world with his Ford skits. His athletic ability, coupled with Ford's athletic pursuits, adds a new dimension to political satire: physical comedy. Typical is the opening scene to the December 20th show. Chase, as Ford, climbs to the top of a 15-ft. Christmas tree. While cutting off the branches--Betty told him to trim it--he stumbles from the ladder and falls spectacularly to the wooden floor. As the crowd roars its approval, Chase lifts his head and yells, "Live from New York: It's Saturday Night!" The weekly fall has become Chase's trademark...
...blew up on the front nine with a 41 before the clubhouse turn. He strung together bogeys at the start and smothered a drive into the tree-canopied rough along the seventh. He fluffed his second shot into a bunker and knocked his chip over the green for a double bogey. Vik turned things around from the twelfth hole on, after exploding from a sand to within three feet...
...blue ribbon to a tree," Schenk said, "but if some asshole on a crane backs into it, some asshole on a crane has backed into it, and Jacobsen can't bring it back...
...thought. These cannibals, however, would be at home in a minstrel show: they chuckle over the white man's antics, flash long rows of gleaming teeth and pass a great deal of time either sitting around the campfire or singing about the funny ways of the palm tree. For the mentality behind Man Friday, this may indeed represent a higher form of culture...
...Invitation au voyage: "There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, calm and sensuous pleasure." No effort can restore its lost shock value, and this, in a different way, is true of the Derain as well. Today we luxuriate in its weighty design and audacious color, the blaring vermilion tree trunks, the complex blues in the caves of shadow, the pyrotechnics of green and yellow in the foliage. One moves into the work without strain; it is not an Arcadia, but a place well removed from the realities of industrial and urban Europe...