Word: crabgrass
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...last seen here in the overrated Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, where he played the lover with the pocketbook library. In his latest film, he scratches his grizzly chin and narrows his tired eyes with the charm of a runty mutt who must scrounge to survive on a diet of crabgrass and crusty bread. Dawaere's puppylike affability extends to his awkwardly rolling gait, which takes him down highways, through bathroom windows and across manicured gardens on a quest for hilarious revenge...
...Crabgrass...
...Instead of saying, 'The United States escalated its involvement in the Vietnam War,' texts will say, 'The Vietnam War started, and grew, and grew, and soon became full-fledged,'" Fitzgerald said. "I call it the 'Crabgrass Theory' of the Vietnam War," she added...
...wild flowers and grasses; it has become a refuge for a wide variety of birds, including an occasional giant pileated woodpecker. Now that she has retired the lawnmower, says Habitat Hostess Ellen Mitchell of Reston, Va., "we're not afraid of anything now. We used to worry about crabgrass and dandelions, bugs and gnats. Now I know they're just part of the system...
...film is that Bombeck does not play the autobiographical heroine herself. That odious chore has fallen instead to Carol Burnett, an actress who is often capable of extracting humor from even the most puerile material. This is one of her rare failures. Bombeck's stale jokes about crabgrass and Tupperware parties defy levitation; the cutesie plot is predictable to anyone who has ever encountered any incarnation of Please Don 't Eat the Daisies. Unfortunately, Burnett doesn't get any help from Director Robert Day. His idea of high drama is to end a scene with a close...