Word: zinger
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...These European settlers described the important Mau Mau initiation oath—which involved goat intestines, blood-drinking, the eating of raw flesh, and so on—as “bestial” and un-Christian. I must confess that I do not understand the zinger in her argumentation. Lest anyone forget, Mau Mau was a violent movement whose initiation oath included nearly all of the things settlers alleged it did. The insurgents did not spare the lives of women and children. And while Mau Mau’s body count was, as Elkins skillfully demonstrates...
Another classic moment that Carson's eulogizers trotted out last week came in 1965 when Ed Ames of Daniel Boone, demonstrating a tomahawk throw, landed his ax squarely in the crotch of a paper target. Carson's greatness was reflected not just in the zinger he came up with--"I didn't even know you were Jewish!"--but in what came before. Watch the playback: he lets the laughter crescendo--five seconds, 10. He knows he has the joke. He knows it will kill. But you cannot have it yet. For a moment, he is keeping it for himself, like...
...fact, Jon Stewart was recently on CNN’s Crossfire complaining that the news media had sunk to his level of analysis. Somehow, cynicism and kitsch have become much more palatable than logic. In that cultural background, it should be no surprise that students prize a one-line zinger above reason...
Bush 41 had Maria Shriver beside him when her husband Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger launched his zinger about "economic girly men." The ex-President loved it but restrained his urge to jump up or shout because it had to be tough for Shriver, a member of the Kennedy clan, who was just at the Democratic Convention. He scurried around and got a couple of ARNOLD signs for her young kids...
...problem. It reminds us that five-sixths of the Dream Team is missing. And where Joey does change, it's abruptly and implausibly. When he was funny on Friends, it was usually unintentionally. He still is, but when the writers need someone to deliver a Chandler-style zinger, they just lend Joey 50 IQ points for five seconds. When Gina, visiting Joey's TV taping, is mistaken (to her delight) for an actress, he cracks, "That's because you've got big fake boobs and you're crazy...