Word: wolfish
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Less sophisticated conservatives seize upon Seeger's style with just the opposite objection. They claim he garbs his wolfish political views in the sheep's clothing of naivete. They argue that Seeger--a former student at Exeter and Harvard--only poses as "one of the folk" to market his left wing views through folk songs, and that the appeal of seemingly innocent songs promotes the acceptance of dangerous anti-Americanism...
Holding a rolled newspaper in his right hand, flashing baby-blue eyes and a wolfish grin, he states his theme and takes off like a jazz musician on a flight of improvisation-or seeming improvisation. He does not tell jokes one by one, but carefully builds deceptively miscellaneous structures of jokes that are like verbal mobiles. He begins with the spine of a subject, then hooks thought onto thought; joke onto dangling joke, many of them totally unrelated to the main theme, till the whole structure spins but somehow balances. All the time he is building toward a final statement...
...belonged neither to Senator John Kennedy nor to Pianist Artur Rubinstein, but to a 25-year-old television actor named Edward Byrnes, who in three short weeks has become the hottest new property on records. The source of Byrnes's top-of-the-head fame is a peculiarly wolfish ditty called Kookie, Kookie (Warner Bros.) in which Byrnes sings scarcely a note. His contribution is a series of jive lingo replies to a marshmallow-voiced girl who implores him over and over again: "Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb!" Sample answer...
...deal during his annual Paris fling, Casanova Cooper is rudely interrupted by mysterious, wide-eyed Ariane (Audrey Hepburn). His big deal's husband, warns Audrey, lurks with a loaded revolver just outside Cooper's Ritz suite. Thus saved from a drilling, grateful Gary turns his wolfish attentions to Audrey...
...Louis R. WOLFISH...