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...color-blind. We're not going to all eat matzo-ball soup. We're not going to all wear white on white--we're not! But as my Jewish friends would say, We can come and kibitz together...
...evening’s soundtrack but did not reply to the organizers’ invitation. . . . Florida retirees got for free what Harvard Law School students pay 30 grand a year for: Alan Dershowitz promoting his political views. Dershie joined Senator Chuck Schumer ’67 to kibitz for Kerry at a Florida synagogue last Sunday. Doesn’t he have classes to teach? . . . Hey, anyone seen Elvis Mitchell around here lately...
...then he tried Wall Street, which he found very trying indeed, since in 18 months he sold only one bond, and that to his godmother. He then landed a job at Doubleday, Doran, which among publishers was a very good house, And as an editor there he got to kibitz and tipple with the likes of Dorothy Parker, Stephen Vincent Benet and P.G. Woodhouse. One day his boss Don Lockwood said to Nash, "Why don't you send some of your verse to The New Yorker, you old salty fish, you?" Ogden obliged, and his first poem appeared...
...Today they kibitz freely about each other's projects, but friction is minimized because each supplies a different emphasis to the partnership. "Lear can put words in your mouth like nobody else," says Dick Van Dyke, who has starred in Yorkin and Lear efforts for both TV and movies. "Yorkin, as a director, is the ideal interpreter of Lear's writing." Lear is more preoccupied with creative matters. Yorkin, with more business acumen, is by his own admission "the heavy in financial deals...
...courtships occurred and family members became reacquainted. In that distant era, bars were appropriately morose settings for the serious contemplation of fate and its ironies, not frenetic assemblages of monitors bringing us football in August and iron-man competitions from the antipodes. Guys who liked sports didn't just kibitz from the sofa, they went out and played softball or bowled. And for those who thrive on deep partisan passions, there was always politics...