"Absolute zero's one get-go,* albeit a bleak..."
specs Alexis,** who's married with children and swears, "Yeah, I’m Greek.”
* Possibly the so-called Great Get-Go,
often confused with the Big Bang.
** Zorba (AZ)
"Be yourself! (HO* whom else would you be…?" asks (rhetoric'lly) Boris.**
"To be anyone else
might cause Mother*** some serious tsoris."
* Russian Cyrillics for 'but' and
pronounced
(roughly) 'noh.'
* Yeltsin (BY)
*** Mother Russia, of course.
"Contemn xenophobes! Contemn..." Rhumba King Cugat* repeats.
(Just as he
would be treated, each stranger this vir bonus** treats.)
* Xavier (CX (reverso))
** What the good man does
is always right –
or so (someplace) suggest the Brothers Grimm.
"Do without! Pledge thy pounds to the poor," warbles Dionne* (a song bird),
though 'tis Bacharach
(Burt) who will best teach her right word from wrong
word.
*
Warwick (DW)
"’Every valley exalted shall be; every rough place made plain...’:
I would dance thee
that text," Edward* vows, "but in Balanchine vein."
*
Villella (EV)
"I’m fed up! UFOs, URLs, UXBs..." fumes our Felix.*
"In the end, all they yield is some abecedarial helix."
*
Unger (FU)
"Gin and tonic plus juice of one lime: pour the lot
over ice..."
prescribes Gene.* "Good advice," echoes Gene.** "To: innocuous vice!"
* Tierney (GT)
** Tunney (GT)
"He v she…? The distinction's ambiguous," challenges Holly.*
So (s)he's Shlomo. Still, what's
in a name…? 'So long, Sol; hello, Dolly.'
*
Sweet (HS)
"I, Robot, rest my case," in tones
Rumpolean
roars Irene.* "I'd rap it, were I
Rock 'n' Rollean."
*
Ryan (IR)
"John Quincey ain't the seventh Chief Exec," corrects Jose.*
"He's sixth, post
James Monroe…but what the heck!" (More: what the
hey!!)
*
Quintero (JQ)
"Key personnel…? Kevin…? Paul…? Rajon…? Ray…?" Kendrick* wonders.
Then Perk's traded, which
trade shall yet prove one of Bean Town's big blunders.
* Perkins (KP)
Leigh/Olivier,*
Lunt/Fontaine. Which duo's dropp’d from the list
of great thespian pairs…?
Jolie/Pitt…? LOL! THEY'D be miss'd…?
* (LO)
"Mach'avellian, not to say cynical: 'twas just
her way..."
muses Mike,* as he pegs one-time partner, the late Elaine May.
*
Nichols (MN)
"Not much!" mutters Norman,* when asked if he liked married life.
"Good when naked,
but less good when dead: much depends on the wife."
* Mailer (NM)
Ozymandias: "Look on my burg, Mr. Big, and despair!"
(Or Orlando*: "Give ear to my music...or not: I don't care.")
*
Lasso (OL)
[PK: Percy Kilbride]
[QJ: Quincy Jones]
[RI: Robert Ingersoll]
[SH: Sam Houston]
[TG: Theodor Geisel]
[UF: Ugo Foscolo]
[VE: V. Emmanuel]
[WD: W. Demarest]
[XC: Claudio Ximenes (reverso)]
[YB: Yul Brynner or Yogi
Berra]
[ZA: Zufer Avdija (NBA power
forward
and father of current Wizards player
Deni Avdija]
