Word: puttin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sharpest of the Nichols and May nightclub skits, Elaine May does a spoof on a Tennessee Williams heroine who is said to be guilty of "drink, prostitution and puttin' on airs." Last week at the University of Mississippi, a young painter and art teacher was charged with obscenity, indecency and puttin' on art shows...
This hayere show they's a-puttin' on at Kirkland Hayuse roun' about now has hits annoyin' aspects, ya know? Lak Ah means for instance thuh hull damn thang is did in this hayere gawddam diuhlect, which at times gits purty sickenin'. And thuh way them guys clomp aroun' back uh thuh stage and forgit tuh turn thuh lights on an' off ain't inny too plasin' neither. Offhand, Ah cain't thank uv no wuss place to put on uh play than thet thar Kirkland Hayuse Joonyer Cummin Room. Sum uv thuh actin' ain't all thet all-fired...
...song, When You're Smiling, made its point a little too muscularly. But this made no difference. By the first, trumpet-clear, high hard note in the first verse, the woozy feeling had disappeared. Judy swung into a bouncy Almost Like Being in Love, blared with humor in Puttin' On the Ritz, wept her words in The Man That Got Away, and brought down the first-act curtain with a ringing, roistering San Francisco. Long before this, the neutral auditor had realized again (one goes through this every time Judy Garland comes to town) that untidy life, maudlin...
...amazing how a girl so dumb that if you say hello she's stuck for an answer can reel off a three-hour lecture on why wild mink is better." Brynner, contemplating a statue of a discus thrower: What sort of a country is dis? Puttin up a monument of a guy stealin' hubcaps...
...charged with excellent one-line jokes, whether a disk jockey tells a movie starlet that Spencer Tracy was supposed to play the title role in the film biography of Gertrude Stein, or a playwright called Alabama Gross describes his heroine as someone who has "taken to drink, prostitution and puttin' on airs." But the humor rests firmly on psychological substance and can be so telling that it sheds, temporarily, its skin of mirth...