Word: slapstick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Rio--The incomparable Jean-Paul Belmondo becomes the first screen hero ever to kick a bad guy in the groin. If you like slapstick and involved plots, hop to it. At the SYMPHONY I, Huntington at Mass...
...from Rio--The incomparable Jean-Paul Belmondo becomes the first screen hero ever to kick a bad guy in the groin. If you like slapstick and involved plots, hop to it. At the SYMPHONY I, Huntington at Mass...
...gory details, but an honest camera shot of one of the corpses would be preferable to the straightfaced but inwardly leering remarks of the police officers who discover the bodies. After an hour, one is thoroughly tired of the discovery scenes, the interviews with terrified old ladies, and the slapstick arrests of suspects seemingly chosen at random from the sexual underground by Boston police...
...week began with a slapstick squabble over a bill to waive the requirement that radio and television grant equal time to all candidates. The waiver would have cleared the way for presidential debates among the major candidates-something that Hubert Humphrey wants and Richard Nixon, as the man with a big lead to preserve, does not. In their maneuvering over the bill the Democrats staged a lock-in in the House, and the Republicans held a sit-out in the Senate. When House Republicans conducted a 27-hour filibuster by insisting on time-consuming roll calls (45 of them, each...
...late Ernie Kovacs, smatterings of early Sid Caesar and Steve Allen, and a-pie-in-the-face splat or two of Soupy Sales. But on Laugh-In, the calculated aim is to create a state of sensory overload, a condition that audiences nowadays seem to want or need. Blackouts, slapstick, instant skits pinwheel before the eyes; chatter and sound effects collide in the ear. Other TV variety shows can be dropped intact onto a theater or nightclub stage, but Laugh-In would be impossible anywhere but on television. For one thing, each show is stitched together from about 350 snippets...