Word: whack
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...about), they wouldn't need to have characters look into the screen and say, "You're this, Joe; you're that, Joe." They would show it. Part of this failure is surely Fosse's lack of faith in his audience's ability to perceive anything that doesn't repeatedly whack it over the head. (Such is the sad fate of many who work in musical comedy.) So every half-baked idea in the movie is reinforced ten times, from the futility of sex to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's five stages of dying (which appear in the stand-up comic...