Word: twittingly
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...plates issued in high-priced limited editions by the schlock art industry -displaying grackles by Boehm, farmhouses by Wyeth, Wedgwood heads of Commerce Secretary Frederick B. Dent, and so on-have become the back-up currency of the overheated U.S. economy. Another complication is that Athena, Apollo, that bisexual twit Hermes, and Zeus, 42 ft. tall but disguised, more or less, as a skirt-chasing municipal court judge, have settled in above a Greek restaurant on 18th Street, hoping to get some of the action...
Before Thomson can fly such mixed loads on his new route, he needs approval from other members of the International Air Transport Association-the very airlines that his ads twit-and from interested governments. Meanwhile, he is trying to pull in passengers for Caledonian's daily New York-London and five-day-a-week New York-Los Angeles flights by touting Caledonian's service (baggage handlers, the ads claim, take extra care with luggage, and stewardesses will sharpen pencils for the businessman doing work aloft) and Scottish image. Airplanes are named after Scottish counties and haggis is served...
...play tape recorders concealed in their noses; a Hungarian tourist who reads to startled British shopkeepers such sentences as "My Hovercraft is full of eels" from a wildly mistranslated phrase book; a mob of old ladies, "Hell's Grannies," who terrorize London; an earnest competition for "Upper-Class Twit of the Year." These goonish concepts are executed with due gusto by Graham Chapman...
...promote their avidly sought democratic image, the Communists of Emilia-Romagna not only twit their comrades in other countries, they go out of their way to downplay their own presence. Although more than 400,000 of Italy's 1,492,000 card-carrying party members live in the region, President Fanti scoffs at Christian Democratic fears that the Reds intend to build a Moscow-style monolithic state. All the Communists want, he says soothingly, is a society "which is pluralistic, in which no ideology or faith would have an exclusive or privileged position...
...mending, he sometimes sulks like a put-upon housewife. Charlie is the male partner, as it were, and with a certain oafish, masculine crudity he does things like cut his toenails in bed. But his basic role is to nag at Harry and call him (her) a "twit." Be it ever so hurtful, there is no place like home, and in its pathetic way the Charlie-Harry relationship is a bad marriage that works. The law threatens to sever it. Charlie has been apprehended doing a transvestite turn in a gay club, and must appear in court. Like gentle, trapped...