Word: doubletalk
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...which German and British troops put down their guns and exchange presents on the war's first Christmas day.* Victor Spinetti, a marvelously adroit actor in a wonderfully adroit cast, contributes the show's stopper as an English sergeant blasting out inept recruits in hilarious British doubletalk...
...times Barbra Streisand bears an uncanny resemblance to Fanny Brice, but echoes of yesteryear are not the real point. For in her own right Streisand is the compleat clown, psychologically foiling the world by supplying her own banana peels to slip on. Her face is a choppy sea of doubletalk, and her talk tries to take back what her face just said. She is an anthology of the awkward graces, all knees and elbows, or else a boneless wonder, a seal doing an unbalancing act. All her devices are attention-getting devices and point astutely to the gnawing doubt...
...half the story. Both the Times and the A.P. were right-both were also wrong. Each seemed to have tuned in on only that portion of Che Guevara's interview that suited their contradictory themes. Castro's man had, in fact, been indulging in a little Cuban doubletalk-as came transparently clear in any thorough reading of the interview. Extracts from A.B.C.'s tape...
...life is hilarious all by itself. The movie soars when he tosses an imaginary hand grenade as the ultimate solution of some minor social disgrace. When he lolls around his boss's office practicing a speech of resignation, Courtenay steers an unpredictable course from Churchill imita tions to doubletalk to mere gibberish, and brings off moments of pluperfect screen comedy...
...this den of doubletalk and doubletake, Playboy Sinatra struggles against his mossback parents (Molly Picon and Lee J. Cobb) to put a long-overdue end to the shocking innocence of his kid brother, Tony Bill. At 21, and out of college, Tony is just a nice Jewish kid who has never tasted a martini or smoked a cigarette orit would seem -kissed a girl. He comes to live with Frank and get made over in the Sinatra image: a wardrobe of silk suits, spread-collar shirts, pointy shoes, and a set of attitudes that includes a taste for doxies...