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...their hazards, but these warnings frequently prove ineffective for children. Many youngsters cannot decipher the labels even if they try; some are more attracted than repelled by the traditional skull-and-crossbones caution symbol. A new design, however, appears to get the message across. Known as Mr. Yuk, it consists of a face with an agonized expression and protruding tongue, which tell a child that the stuff he is about to consume...
...straight to Mrs. Truman and apologize. Then I'd go home." Hollywood thought the idea was cute. In 1964's Kisses for My President, Politician Polly Bergen is elected and then, domestically enough, has to resign when her husband, Fred MacMurray, gets her pregnant. Yuk yuk yuk...
...DIDN'T KNOW whether to be amused or depressed. I tend now to look at the whole thing as a big joke because I find it more enjoyable, and because I hate to contemplate sad realities. So I go to Tremont Street and then to Government Center to yuk it up for three solid hours, but I can't help thinking meanwhile that no matter how hard I laugh, these people are determining our pollicies around the world. They're putting the punch in Nixon's words. They're the reason Nixon can watch a football game and ignore...
...held outdoors in a livestock exposition arena), but mainly is preoccupied with providing plenty of lip-smackin-good leers. (Told that his client never played around. Tony quips in disbelief, "What's the matter-did he have it shot off in the last war?") When he's not reconstructing Yuk Night at the American Legion Smoker, the director is going for the obvious sight gags (a-sheriff's tattoo which reads "Mother") and stereotypes (a swishy hairdresser named Mr. Andre...
...morning game shows and reruns, and already he's making steady, perceptible waves of laugh ter. There is something vaguely immoral about one-liners at 10:30 a.m., but Cavett has no respect. Amid all the yak, yak, yak on daytime TV, he has snuck in a genuine yuk. And mean while the breakfast dishes are stacking up in the sink like poker chips...