Word: dwarfed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phony Rolls hood is attracting attention elsewhere: the executive offices of Rolls-Royce of America. "Our attitude," says a company spokesman, "is one of total contempt. The Rolls hood on a VW is like a giant's robe on the wizened body of a dwarf...
...juxtaposes anachronistic speech with Brooklyn slang. and intersperses flowery phrasings with punchy and often vile lines. The comedy is similar to the Firesign Theatre's Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers. Like the Firesign Theatre, the best of Allen's humor comes down to playing with words...
Ellsberg, the antiwar activist, must be taken seriously. The issues he has raised about Viet Nam dwarf him as an intellectual celebrity. To view him as a potential martyr, or simply as a burglar, offers a too convenient way of avoiding the moral questions implicit in all wars. To avoid such questions goes beyond "the need not to know" to the need not to feel...
...also researched Five Patients, his documentary about the workings of a large medical center. In 1968 A Case of Need won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. For that book -a swiftly plotted story biased in favor of abortion-Crichton used the name Jeffry Hudson, who was a dwarf in the court of Charles...
...Population Growth and the American Future gave its answer: growth must slow down. "We will not like some of the solutions we will have to adopt," it said, "but unless we can resolve the question of population growth, it not only will aggravate our current problems but may eventually dwarf them...