Word: knockabout
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...television series and five movies, including Bedazzled, their zany version of the Faust legend. Their style was blithe, bizarre humor that turned logic upside down. In Bedazzled, for instance, they invented an order of leaping nuns who would jump on trampolines to get closer to God. In their knockabout revue Good Evening, which ran almost continuously for five years, they constructed an imaginary restaurant buried deep in the Yorkshire moors. It was called the Frog and the Peach, and there were only two entrées on the menu: Frog...
...Edwin, Mason rarely says more than is necessary to convey what Hemingway called "the real thing, the sequence of motion and fact which made the emotion." Sabrina's enthusiasms, her fennel toothpaste and herbal deodorant, leave Edwin amazed and uneasy. Self-knowledge comes hard. He dimly recalls his knockabout past and realizes that he has not been an adventurer but "has gone through life rather blindly, without much pain or sense of loss." Only on his bus is he in complete control, jolting his handicapped audience with Jim Morrison's Light My Fire, "a song that...
...Michael has his wig and makeup on, his is the love that dares not speak its name. It is his conflict, between the need to keep his identity secret and his compulsion to confess it and try to claim his true love, that moves the comedy to the knockabout level...
...these troubled and changing times, only fortunetellers, Marxists and Jehovah's Witnesses will venture to prognosticate whether Prince Charles and Lady Diana will actually one day mount the throne as King and Queen of England. In the course of 50 years of knockabout journalism, I have seen too many upheavals of one sort and another to feel any certainty about anything or anyone in the decades ahead. Popularity, however seemingly strong and widespread, can evaporate in an afternoon, and institutions that have lasted for centuries disappear overnight. So I can but conclude by simply saying, "God bless the Prince...
...life sounds hard, Forss describes it with the abstract air of a man in love with his work. Besides, his knockabout past has immunized him to mere annoyances. Born in the South Bronx, Forss endured a bout of polio at age three, and the loss of his carpenter father, who took to thievery, using a hand-carved wooden pistol, and was deported back to Sweden after a fling at bank robbery. His Italian mother remarried, and George moved through a series of orphanages and boys' homes. "Let's face it," he says, "we were a welfare family...