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fpbConsidering the following lines:
Clark is a wonderful fellow. In a day when many are seeking a reward for what they contributed to the return of the Democrats to the White House, you don't hear Clark clamoring. All he asked in return was that we advertise his law firm on the backs of one-dollar bills
-- John F. Kennedy on Washington lobbyist and ex-Truman aide Clark Clifford
Groucho Marx, SJ Perelman, Dorothy Parker, could not have done any better. It is a line that slides around its subject like an anaconda - and then strangles it. It's still funny fifty years after all its participants became history. A man who could produce a line like that was wasted as a politician; his business was comedy.
Clark is a wonderful fellow. In a day when many are seeking a reward for what they contributed to the return of the Democrats to the White House, you don't hear Clark clamoring. All he asked in return was that we advertise his law firm on the backs of one-dollar bills
-- John F. Kennedy on Washington lobbyist and ex-Truman aide Clark Clifford
Groucho Marx, SJ Perelman, Dorothy Parker, could not have done any better. It is a line that slides around its subject like an anaconda - and then strangles it. It's still funny fifty years after all its participants became history. A man who could produce a line like that was wasted as a politician; his business was comedy.
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Date: 2011-10-20 01:02 am (UTC)Now I'm going to have to find some way to write the story of the Jack Kennedy Show, and all the rising and declining stars who made their walk-in appearances on it over its thirty-year television history.
All I need's a plot.
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Date: 2011-10-25 09:23 am (UTC)