Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finger Stitcher. And his audience knows him-as a straight, if sometimes confusing, pitchman whose lack of polish is somehow his shining virtue. "There's too much damn talk on TV," he says. "Other variety shows have skillful and amusing hosts, but they spend too much time getting into the act. The most difficult thing in the world is to shut up. Besides, whoever said a master of ceremonies had to be a glamour boy? What counts is the kind of product he puts...
Stoned. Audiences on both sides of the Irish Sea find The Dubliners' pandemonium somehow endearing. Their record of Seven Drunken Nights, a woozy chronicle of just what its name implies, has passed the quarter-million sales mark, with Black Velvet Band just behind. Two weeks ago, a sellout crowd of 25,000 at Dublin's National Stadium matched the group roar for roar, and last week The Dubliners headed an all-Irish bill at London's hallowed Albert Hall...
...finally, books that somehow don't quite fit in with the others in the XR collecton. There are few as puzzling as Variations in the Rotations of Azimuths. Sassow says he recently removed a set of air-raid instructions from World War II. Also included in this category is The Making of Tanganyika, which must mean the classifier eitiher took the wrong meaning of the verb or thought "Tanganyika" to be a personal noun...
...Broadway, and went on to make a series of inconsistent pictures including The Miracle Worker, Mickey One (with Beatty), and The Chase; and his screenwriters, David Newman and Robert Benton, have as their one claim to fame their book to the less than wonderful musical It's Superman. But somehow their collaborative efforts have produced a single work which, for each of its creators, overshadows all he has done previously...
...Liberals must somehow overcome the curious condescension which takes the form of sticking up for and explaining away anything, howsoever outrageous, which Negroes, individually or collectively, might do." Distinction must be made between "the vast Negro underclass, a disorganized, angry, hurt group easily given to self-destructive violence, and the radical, nihilist youth [that seeks to use the underclass for] apocalyptic confrontation with white society." The differentiation "means facing up to some of the realities of life in that class that liberals have been notoriously unwilling to acknowledge...