Word: tums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Finally, Sly has Able announce his death, and the comedy takes a quan tum jump and delirium risibilitatis sets in. Returning to Broadway after an absence of ten years, Arthur Penn directs the evening's proceedings with the bounce of a trampoline. He must be good for his superb cast, for no one does any thing remotely wrong. Larry Gelbart's book is a naughty treasure laced with sassy one-liners and the ambience of bawdry that he brought to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. As for the formidably gifted George C. Scott...
UDALL "This campaign is on target and on track-our destination is Madison Square Garden," declared the easygoing Congressman, who also insisted that he was picking up "Mo-men-tum." (He often predicts that "Enie, Meenie and Minie will drop out, leaving only Mo.") Udall's strong second place did stamp him as the early leader in the fight for survival among the four most liberal Democratic candidates. If the party's "ABC" ("Anyone But Carter") liberals coalesce in a stop-Carter movement, Udall is in position to lead it. Idaho Senator Frank Church, another liberal, intends...
Pound's marginalia, scribbled, indeed, with a stumpy pencil, mark the trail of an editor with a fine merciless eye for padding, preciosity or false prosody: "3 lines Too tum-pum at a stretch," one scribble reads. With the notation "1880," Pound skewered an anachronism in which Eliot called for "a closed carriage" in 1922; the carriage promptly became a "closed car at four." W.H. Auden once observed that Eliot was part church warden, part twelve-year-old boy. Pound was on the side of the boy. His objections to Eliot's frequent use of "may" and "perhaps...
...story in the first issue, out this month, calmly assesses the coverage of demonstrations on the University of Denver campus last May, and carefully documents some obvious excesses. Elsewhere in TUM, an item deplores a tendency by minority groups in Colorado to bar newsmen from meetings "because they don't speak Spanish or have the wrong skin color." Another notes that a TV cameraman encouraged a police officer at a demonstration to stir up some action worth photographing...
Besides a sense of fairness, TUM has a sense of humor. Its first issue's 16 pages include a tongue-in-cheek quiz on the Denver Post's handling of two debutante balls-one white, one black. It offers excerpts from the two stories and asks readers to match them with the right ball. Sample 1): "From the moment it started until the last waltz, the rooms were wall-to-wall with vintage bloodlines. There was old money, new money and talented young moneymakers, and everyone shone and everything moved." Sample 2): "About 400 persons attended ..." Answers...