Word: boing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tape transcripts, internal memos and other records show GOPAC quite openly declaring its stake in federal races. "Action alerts," "phonegrams" and other solicitations repeatedly ask contributors for money to help win control of the House. In a letter to textile magnate Roger Milliken, GOPAC chairman Howard ("Bo") Callaway invited the Republican financier to a Washington meeting and vowed, "We will be looking at plans to recruit and support candidates in 210 congressional districts across the country...
...games after having played late the night before. But Cal has nothing on Steve: more than once, Wulf has stayed awake until 4 a.m. on Saturday finishing a story for TIME only to get up a few hours later for...more baseball. As a coach for his son Bo's Little League team, Wulf has sometimes had to be on the field at 7:45 a.m. He thus can be excused for botching the occasional signal. "There was one time when the runner was coming into third base from second and I neglected to tell him to stop," Wulf says...
There are a few high points to the movie, including a crazy chase scene through a Vietnamese market when Bo Tat gets hungry, and another on water where Bo Tat gets seasick. In other words, the elephant is the best actor in the movie...
...Beyond Bo Tat, jokes and slapstick carry the film a short distance, but between jokes, Dumbo Drop drags its feet. And the scenes where Glover tries to bond with Bo Tat and show off his sensitivity are just awful...
Operation Dumbo Drop is worth watching for the jokes it does manage to carry off, and especially for the scene where they actually do parachute Bo Tat out of a cargo plane. But don't spend $7.25 to do it; wait for the video...