Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imagine what happens when Allen slips on one of those banana peels. It is almost impossible, however, to convey the intricacy of his comic inventiveness, the shrewdness with which he sustains his comic lines. The simplest measure of Sleeper's success is perhaps the fact that one recalls it not by quoting Allen's one-liners but by trying to describe-inadequately-his beautifully built visual gags...
Directed by WOODY ALLEN Screenplay by WOODY ALLEN and MARSHALL BRICKMAN...
...Woody Allen has seen the future -and it doesn't work any better than the present. In Sleeper, having undergone an unsuccessful operation for a peptic ulcer, he is wrapped in tin foil and cryogenically preserved. Two hundred years hence he is heated 'n' served in an America that has managed to preserve only that which is ghastly in our own culture: a political leader who only appears before the public mouthing pious platitudes on TV, Rod McKuen's poetry, Walter Kean's paintings, McDonald's hamburgers and vegetables, which have carried the current...
...worth waiting for. With the drama of a Melville (a writer, says Allen, who was greatly scorned by whaling men), it re-enacts the entrapment in ice and then the abandonment, in the summer of 1871, of 32 New England whaling ships, the biggest and costliest such fleet ever assembled. The ice closed round the ships and wrecked them. The crews escaped in small whaleboats and were eventually picked up. Of 1,200 men aboard the vessels not a soul was lost. But many a Yankee countinghouse was foreclosed, many a proud harpooner sent back to the plow...
...means black pride to me," says Clarence Dyas, a Los Angeles community relations supervisor. "Cats on the street used to look at a fellow strange if he braided his hair, but now everyone knows what it means." Other male braid buffs adopt the style for convenience. Explains Ray Allen, stylist at Soul Scissors, a Los Angeles black barbershop: "Braids are neater and a guy is more together in his appearance." He can also tuck his curls more easily into a football helmet: Star Split-End Morell George of Detroit's Central High School switched to braids after continuous combing...