Word: manically
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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M.A.S.H., one of America's funniest bloody films, is also one of its bloodiest funny films. Though it wears a dozen manic, libidinous masks, none quite covers the face of dread. The time is wartime, any time. Specifically it is the day before yesterday, during the Korean conflict. Somewhere outside Seoul, a group of Army doctors operate -in every sense of the word. Whatever rationality they possess is consumed by the disciplines of surgery. Off-duty they live by a hypocritic oath...
...prime source of Dawson's black ink in the last couple of years was Howard W. Sober, 74, a Lansing trucker and a manic bettor. Sober is the kind of plunger who, while rushing to catch a plane at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, tipped an airline clerk $50 to phone a $2,000 bet to a bookie. It was altogether typical of Sober's luck that the horse lost and Internal Revenue Service agents who were following him acquired the note left with the clerk. Since Sportscaster and Hall of Fame Pitcher-Dizzy Dean introduced...