Word: bike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hero, Frank (John Lithgow), runs a bicycle shop in Belfast. He is zany about bikes and a bit zany all around. He can dismantle a bike and apostrophize its beauty as if he were disrobing a woman and seducing her. It runs in his blood...
...Chauffeur Jean Denis wheeled his gray Peugeot 604 out of the apartment-house garage on Paris' Avenue Foch, scarcely noticing the motorbike ahead of him or the blue van behind. He slowed to ease around another van that was double parked. The cyclist then stopped, hopped off his bike and walked back waving a pistol. Men sprang from the parked van and pulled Denis from the car. The last thing the chauffeur saw was the Peugeot moving off with his boss in the back, imprisoned by men on either side...
Despite two mad scenes and numerous other opportunities to embarrass himself, Henry Winkler does manage to survive Heroes-but barely. In the future he would be wise to apply the Fonz's cagey bike-riding style to his fledgling movie career: while TV actors have every right to burst out of the 21-in. screen, they are more likely to land safely if they look before they leap...
...keynote oration: "Moped--An Italian Word," before 'pedders of many lands take off on a marathon sputter through some of the more colorful sections of Cambridge. The rally will end on the steps of Tommy's, where the always-jovial owner will kiss the front end of the winning bike, discuss his recipe for cheese steak with Paul Bocuse, and declare his candidacy for Mayor...
...mailbox. But alas, Dr. Forbes has escaped ... to Catalina. On a catamaran. Audiences invariably groan as this inventive tale turns into mushy vaudeville. Wide-eyed pause. "You think comedy is ... pretty?" leers Martin. He catches them catnapping every time. As a youngster in Southern California, Steve used to bike over to nearby Disneyland and virtually moved in. He sold guidebooks, practiced card tricks, prowled the park's secret passages after hours, and idolized Wally Boag, a vaudevillian who did card tricks and balloon animals at Frontierland's Golden Horseshoe Revue...