Word: waggish
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...wretches whose inadequacy takes this direction (the reviewer is admitting nothing), Alan Goldfein's waggish collection of dubious moments from lofty lives is just the thing. We learn that Jean Jacques Rousseau put his pants on one leg at a time and the pants were unpressed and greasy. Also, Rousseau lived with a waitress who, Goldfein lies, was allowed to keep her job on the condition that Jean Jacques stayed away from the restaurant. He would show up anyway, time after time, restaurant after restaurant, haranguing the patrons, "a shaggy, dark Swiss freak." As he was kicked...
...spoon. Yet they are not mere footnotes to Surrealism. Samaras has a way of undercutting, or predicting, his more "mainstream" contemporaries; in 1961, for instance, he laid 16 square textured tiles flat on the ground, four by four, as a sculpture. In the Whitney, it looks like a waggish parody of Carl Andre's floor pieces-until you remember Andre's sculptures were made years later...
...made of his face and body, and store men record him laughing and saying yes (or crying and saying no) on a tape that is inserted into the dummy. What consumers can do with the dummies after all that bother, the Neiman-Marcus nabobs do not say; one waggish suggestion is that a wife could take a dummy of her husband to a party, while the flesh-and-blood husband stayed home watching TV, and few if any guests would notice...
...demo, talk, talk"-guest singer or jazz group, a visual demonstration of something like glassblowing or astronomy, and the inevitable circuit-riding horde of authors promoting books or public figures pushing causes. Garroway calls it the "desk and sofa concept," and he certainly should know. Yet his taste, often waggish, brings in such atypical guests as the proprietor of an ant colony, the mother of 23 children, a pewtersmith, a psychiatrist discussing transvestites and an 88-year-old barbell buff...
...foundation's penchant for controversy is abetted by a flock of waggish personalities who are refreshingly aloof from the slick chat of commercial radio. KPFK Disk Jockey Lew Merkelson, an ex-truck driver who runs Los Angeles' most knowledgeable classical-music program, often invites local enthusiasts to come in and play their favorite records on the air. Newscasters at Pacifica stations report only top stories; at KPFK, they take pride in the fact that they never even mentioned Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding...