Word: stand-up
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...simple but elegant office at IBM's headquarters in Armonk, N.Y., the only mildly unusual feature is a stand-up desk that Opel uses in addition to a standard one. He receives visitors with a correctness that is so smooth it can be mistaken for real easiness. But Board Member William Coleman, a Secretary of Transportation in the Ford Administration and now a Washington lawyer, says Opel is noted more for his strength than for his charm. Says Coleman: "He's tough. You can tell instantly when you're rubbing him the wrong way or when...
Having "pared down two years of material to 10 minutes" for her audition at Gutman Library, Michaels, a non-resident tutor and professional comic, will perform a stand-up routine of topical and political material...
...restaurants and the pinball outfit now under attack are innocent victims, outlets for the frustration of those witnessing admittedly undesirable but probably inexorable changes. The liquor establishments which cause trouble are stand-up bars, not restaurants that happen to serve alcohol. It is difficult to believe that if Grendel's and Ruggles begin to serve beer, the number of outsiders coming to the Square will sharply rise. While a stronger case can be made against the impact of arcades like the Dream Machine, much of the damage has probably already been done at the packed Tommy's Lunch and Elsie...
...King of Comedy Rupert not only wants to be Jerry Langford's pal, he wants the nation's leading talk-show host to give him his big break, let him do on the air the stand-up routine he has been polishing these many months in his Hoboken basement. To these ends he stalks Jerry not as an assassin, but as a nudge and a nerd. The two characters are wonderfully contrasted. Robert De Niro's Rupert has a cheerfully deranged imperviousness to traditional class distinctions and psychological boundary lines that makes you laugh even...
Television has developed an elaborate jargon that has possibilities as slang. Voiceover, segue, intro and out of sync have been part of the more general language for a long time. Now there is the out-tro, the stand-up spiel at the end of a news reporter's segment. A vividly cynical new item of TV news jargon is bang-bang, meaning the kind of film coverage that TV reporters must have in order to get their reports from El Salvador or the Middle East onto the evening news...