Word: malaprop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GEORGE STEINBRENNER FOR MARGE SCHOTT -- IS that a fair baseball trade? The bigots' Mrs. Malaprop begins her year's suspension from the Cincinnati Reds just as Steinbrenner, the sport's most belligerent, beguiling owner, returns to the New York Yankees, 2 1/2 years after he was ousted as managing partner by Fay Vincent, then the commissioner. With Schott you got Schottzie 2, her drooling St. Bernard. But George needs no dog. He can growl at reporters, fetch overpriced free agents and bite the occasional manager. He can do everything but heel...
...they go beyond parody into the realm of condescending camp. Mom offers everybody fudge and says "Oh, pooh!" when she gets upset. Dad smokes a pipe and thinks a woman's place is in the kitchen. The jokes are moronic: the '50s mom tries to use 1990s lingo with malaprop results ("My, don't you look squirrelly," she says, meaning "foxy"). And when the punkish '90s kid asks for a high five, his '50s counterpart, who wears a Boy Scout uniform, gives him $5. Oh, pooh...
...MUSICAL. If you've been missing Evan Mecham, Arizona's malaprop Governor who alienated practically everybody until his impeachment in 1988, you can savor again those Archie Bunkeresque remarks about gays, "pickaninnies" and Martin Luther King Jr. in this musical satire by Tempe's Mill Avenue Theater...