Word: bellyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Brattle Players advertised "an evening of comedy" last night and they weren't kidding. The combination of Christopher Fry's highly intellectual slapstick with Richard Sheridan's slightly more visual approach produces a session of very satisfactory chuckles and belly-laughs. "A Phoenix Too Frequent" and "The Critic" will...
¶ Ex-Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, an aging (37) shadow of the Brown Bomber, a sixth-round knockout (a right to the belly, a left hook to the head) over Lee Savold, 35; in Manhattan.
Bang-Bang-Bang. Relaxed and loose, he cautiously circled the Dutchman, spotted a sudden opening. He threw a left jab to the belly and De Bruin, gaping in surprise, dropped to the canvas. De Bruin picked himself up at the count of one, sparred warily for a moment, then rocked...
"Bang-bang-bang him in the belly," said Gainford. "Slow him up." Robinson went to work, snakewhipped De Bruin with sharp lefts. Right hooks, crosses, uppercuts and underswung bolos* crashed through De Bruin's blockade of glove and muscle. Robinson was on target, bombarding his opponent with boxing'...
Half Angel (20th Century-Fox) tries to play schizophrenia for belly laughs and proves that psychiatry can be mangled as witlessly in a comedy as in melodrama. Its heroine (Loretta Young) is a primly correct girl whose subconscious, taking possession while she sleeps, turns her into a somnambulant femme fatale...