Word: blonds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everything one would expect of a racist caricature. Complete with the requisite trailing pigtail, pidgin English, and tiny stature, he bows and clasps his hands together, preeminently laughable in all his jerky, awkward mannerisms. He is presented as a slimy little man who evilly lusts after the blond heroine...
American after American lines up to take pictures of the Czech in the penalty box. A little blond kid with a Kodak instamatic won't leave until the player looks up at him. The boy taps on the window insistently until the player turns and glares and the flash bulb nearly blinds...
...guess a style is not a style until a white woman wears it. Wearing one's hair in cornrows [Jan.28] has been "in style"since my great-grandmother was a child. Cicely Tyson has worn cornrows for years, but not until blond, white Bo Derek wears them will anyone admit that they are beautiful...
...picture veers from the grotesque (eating binges whenever Dom DeLuise, as the title heavyweight, becomes anxious or unhappy) to the hysterical (members of his excitably loving Italian family yelling at him whenever he gorges himself). There is also a sentimental love story: the hero falls for a sweet, dumbish blond (Candice Azzara) who runs the gift shop around the corner from his card shop. As for the gags, they are mindlessly farcical: an examination at the diet doctor's features standard jokes about hospital gowns and a nicotine-addicted physician who coughs in the patient's face...
...dance floor. He moves furtively at first, apprehensive. Male bodies fill the cave, twisting, punching, kissing, biting, stroking, tearing. On the wall, a giant neon American flag blinks omnisciently. A man in an executioner's leather mask watches from the side. Pacino's partner spins and flicks his blond curls. The drum pounds louder, the montage quickens, the American flag flashes, glaring like a Puritan God, a caretaker of the Judaeo-Christian sex ethic, a last warning before...