Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been parched for laughs. Well, the drought is over. A comic geyser is flooding the Plymouth Theater with hilarity. Two British zanies, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, have released it, and these men are stark-raving bonkers. Cook, the tall one, has the imperturbable aplomb of a tightly furled umbrella. Moore, the short one, scurries round like a libidinous opossum. Employing literate wit and razor-edged satire, the pair take off on the Nativity, a homosexual Othello, Germaine Greer's theories on Women's Lib and the perils of running a two-course restaurant on the English moors...
Indirectly, Nixon's irrational (or perhaps it is one of his more rationally based fears) hatred of the press has also created an umbrella under which others securely wreck the Gazetteers...
...Arab society, go back to the 18th century, when Hebrew and Arabic were valued for their relevance to biblical and archaeological studies. They have thrived in recent years with funds from the post-Sputnik National Defense Education Act, the Ford Foundation and oil companies. Today leading centers-generally umbrella departments coordinating language, history, cultural and political studies-are at Princeton, U.C.L.A., Columbia, Chicago, Berkeley, Harvard and Michigan...
...Suez Canal demonstrated that these missiles can also play an offensive role, enabling an attacking force to establish and hold a beachhead. With the extremely mobile SA-6, beachheads can be expanded by slowly moving the missiles forward, thus increasing the area protected from aerial assault by their umbrella...
Though they have been in business only three years, Deaver Brown and Alexandre Goodwin, both 29, have grossed $6,100,000 so far in 1973, mostly from sales of their Umbroller. It is a clever little baby stroller that folds to resemble an umbrella on wheels. Already some 750,000 have been sold, and business is good enough that last week the entrepreneurs reduced the price from...