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...tried to follow the story as best I could, but I kept getting distracted. At the beginning, Father's voice was slightly out of sync with the movement of his lips, and listening to him was like watching a foreign movie where the dubbing doesn't quite fit the speaker's lips...
...production. Jack Buchanan, as the director, is a portrait in Orson Welles-like pomposity and does some hoofing to match the skinny master himself. Somehow Charisse managed to write a three-minute "classical" dance number into her contract, and in the middle of the shuffling it seems out of sync. But the rest just hops. In two clever parts dreamed up by screenwriters Comden and Green, Oscar Levant and Nannette Fabray star as two writers who carry on like--who else? Comden and Green...
...joke arises from the inappropriateness of a response to a situation. Rearrange a cliche or put it where it doesn't belong, and it becomes perversely funny, knocking your sense of normalcy out of kilter. But there's a catch. If a cliche isn't entirely out of sync with a situation, it automatically reverts back from punch line to commonplace...
During a tournament at Morris County his opponent, Foxhall Keene, purposely kept him waiting at the tee for over an hour for the express purpose of throwing his game out of sync. The strategy had the desired effect, which prompted a new ruling that any player who arrives late to a match is disqualified...
...class of '76. It has only been aggravated, not caused by the recession and its aftermath. The primary cause is a structural problem that almost nobody foresaw a decade ago: the output of the U.S. educational system and the needs of the U.S. economy are badly out of sync...