Word: wisecrack
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King of the Khyber Rifles (20th Century-Fox) may be the first CinemaScope production to justify a recent Hollywood wisecrack: "The wider they come the harder they flop." King is a routine Tyrone Power costume adventure set in 1857. Spread out on the enormous CinemaScope screen, it forces the actors to shout love at each other about as intimately as opponents on a tennis court, and the audience gets a neck ache following the conversational ball...
Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, butt of many a Washington wisecrack (e.g., "He should learn to keep a civil foot in his mouth"), showed last week that he has enough sense of humor to see a joke about himself. In a speech to the National Press Club, the former General Motors president told of a U.S. Senator who needed a new car. The Senator consulted a General Motors executive, who suggested getting a car with an automatic transmission. Said the Senator: "Well, maybe that would be all right, but when there is no clutch pedal, where...
...sense of theater. She flips king-size cigarettes into the air and catches them nonchalantly in her mouth, then lights her match with her fingernail. Her hawkish, sun-toughened face is frozen for the most part in a thin-lipped mask, but she knows when to let go a wisecrack. When one of her tremendous drives sails out of bounds, she turns to the crowd and explains, "I hit it straight but it went crooked...
...lighthearted approach to the rugged business of football. Schmitt has made himself a popular coach by being more than a coach; the men who work under him feel they can come to him with more than just football problems and they often do. They know they can expect a wisecrack, but always with some good advice as well. If they intend to invite him to their weddings, however, they had better schedule them in the off-season. Right now, Schmitt is much too busy with the Harvard football team, trying to keep it winning by keeping it laughing...
...dissertation on this theme. It wears much of the smooth make-up that made Malice a bestseller, with the difference that it reveals underneath a very agitated face. It is 100% American in that it is written with a high ideal in the right hand and a wisecrack in the left-each serving as something of an apology for the other. It is inspired by deep emotions which often result in intellectual pratfalls...