Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brad Darrach considers punning the "art of making a fool of yourself. They really should be silly and awful, to stir up your body." Brad's reviews are punctuated with puns: "Between bouts Presley Elviscerates a few songs"; the lead in the movie The Birds is an "Oedipus wreck"; and the Strategic Air Command hero's wife "chews him out for spending too much time...
...patient advance spadework in Asian capitals, U.S. diplomats managed to resolve the differences and preclude embarrassments. In Saigon, for example, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge urged Premier Nguyen Cao Ky to beware of impetuous remarks that might wreck the conference-such as repeating his proposal to invade North Viet Nam. "Lodge told Ky that ad libs were fine-so long as you'd worked on them day and night for six months before tossing them out," said one American...
...title from Christ's commandment to forgive sinners "until seventy times seven," or 490 times (Matthew 18:21-22). Apparently suggesting the unforgivable 491st sin, the film depicts a Swedish sociological experiment in which a young bachelor named Krister (connoting Christ) shelters six juvenile delinquents who proceed to wreck his home, sell his furniture, maim themselves, cavort with a prostitute and force her to have inter course with a dog. Assorted scenes evoke other perversions from sodomy to fellatio; the picture ends with Krister's arrest and one boy's suicide...
Even those professors or university heads who want earnestly to "save something from the wreck of general and liberal education in our universities" are "functionaries of the very system which general education is meant to counteract," he says...
...Corvette Sting Ray that Sport magazine gave him for being the Series' standout, Frank began exercising his vocal cords for the winter's after-dinner speaking circuit, which will keep him busy describing how he won batting's Triple Crown and then went on to wreck the Los Angeles Dodgers with two more homers in the Series. Frank, who stands to collect about $35,000 in speaking fees, will have some remarks for the Orioles as well. Last season they paid him $62,500, but when a reporter asked Frank if he would be embarrassed...