Word: twangs
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...Tootle & Twang. The publication in the 1920s of such nonsense "plays" as Lardner's Clemo Uti-"The Water Lilies" and I Gaspiri (The Upholsterers) perhaps marked the literary debut of the New Lunacy. Hailed in some quarters as offshoots of Dada and in others as potshots at it, they helped form the Krazy Katechism of the era. With the mere setting of the scene in Clemo Uti-"the Outskirts of a Parchesi Board"-there sounded a note that would tootle and twang and echo from Perelman to Mad Magazine; it was there, too, in the very first lines...
...Sellers is the world's best mimic, equipped with an enormous range of accents, inflections and dialects-including five kinds of cockney, Mayfair pukka, stiff upper BBC, Oxford, Cambridge, Yorkshire, Lancashire, West Country, Highland Scots, Edinburgh Scots, Glaswegian Scots, Tyneside Geordie, Northern Ireland, Southern Ireland, French, Mitteleuropa, American Twang, American Drawl, American Snob, Canadian, Australian and three kinds of Indian. He fools everybody. Everybody but his friends, that is; they are wise to him. When they call him up and a sweet old German nanny answers, they say, "Come off it, you old bastard." The trouble is that there...
...LION SLEEPS TONIGHT (the Tokens; RCA Victor). A first album by the newest teen-age quartet to bleat their way to fortune. Here they kick rock 'n' roll to concentrate on folk-style tunes-Michael, Shenandoah, Jamaica Farewell. Underneath their Brooklyn twang, there are even hints of talent...
...Writing from palpable ignorance on this subject. I am unable to say whether Vernoff speaks truth, but, either way, his evangelical style offers the reader some unparalleled moments of exoticism. Speaking of God, he remarks: "Only He can count the pairs of ears, delirious with Indian ragas or the twang of the koto, which really long for the lilt of a good Chassidic niggun!" He speaks of the "irresolute student who apparently wishes to lick the icing of identification without eating the cake of commitment," and, in his final paragraph, he addresses the neo-Hasids directly...
...dream no longer disturbs Jack Romagna's repose. After 20 years as the White House shorthand reporter, dealing with everything from Franklin D. Roosevelt's stutter (in search of the right word) to John F. Kennedy's burp-gun Boston twang. Romagna is reasonably confident that his right hand can keep pace with any presidential tongue. The pace is quickening. Roosevelt's top speaking velocity of 200 words per minute scarcely winded Romagna, who can handle up to 240 w.p.m., or four words per second. But Kennedy has been timed in bursts of 327 w.p.m. Such...