Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Second, I plan to appoint diplomatic officials who have superb credentials, strictly on the basis of merit, not reward people for political favors. And that's a commitment that I've made on my word of honor. I'm not going to break...
Most Receptions: 36. Although this record did not take place during the game, a word must be mentioned about the heroic postgame performance of Yale undergraduate Dooley Stegaropolis in 1972. "Dilled Dooley," as he is now known, although then a stranger to Cambridge, promptly established himself by popping into every after-game Happy Hour from Jellybeans at "Jacks" to coffee and doughnuts in Gutman Library...
...rest of the cast is proficient, but mostly a backdrop for these three. David Levy as Hysterium, the slave-in-chief on whom Pseudolus has leverage because of his collection of pornographic pottery, is suitably hysterical, in all senses of the word. He runs about like a Skinner-box mouse on Thorazine. Taking time out to sing "I'm Calm," he shows he's as cool under fire as barbecue sauce in a heat wave. Andy Borowitz is on target too, in his characterization of Lycus, a gentleman and procurer. He adds just the right dash of street...
...Richard II, he is no distance at all from Falstaffs characterization of the young Hal as "the lad who was twice sick in my hat." Hal's cold renunciation of Falstaff on coronation day in Henry V is- begging the difference of a thy and a thee- word for word the same in the play and the autobiography: "I know you not, old man. Fall to your prayers...
...much for the Borrower of Avon. Falstaff calls himself an English Bacchus, and he is one - word-drunk but still thirsty, sloshing his language about, banging his mug for more. He gossips, slanders, tells randy jokes ancient even in the 15th century and borrows stories when he runs out of his own. Henry IV, he announces, "was something of an in somniac, and his struggles to get to sleep weren't much assisted by his habit of wearing his crown in bed." He claims to have seen Joan of Arc disguised as a deer. He talks of a blustering...