Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...upon this production a plague of unfunny punch lines and lackluster performances. There are a couple of droll sight gags (Goliath's oversize undershorts hanging out to dry; Coco at work in the pharaoh's palace, trying to sweep up hundreds of frogs with a dustpan and broom), but nothing can redeem Wholly Moses! from its destiny of eternal mirthlessness. It is a tattered Torah indeed, a comedy made out of hole cloth...
...cleverly he had diagnosed their security system. Shortly after sunset one day last week, the prisoner approached the ten-foot chain-link fence with a pair of wire cutters, a crude ladder he had fashioned and an odd device made of a toothbrush taped to one end of a broom handle. Knowing that any sudden movement of the fence would set off an electric alarm, he propped the ladder near a gatepost for added support. He shinnied up and, with his hand as steady as a surgeon's, used his broom-handle-toothbrush apparatus to disconnect the alarm system...