Word: bump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncle, who manages a Coca-Cola bottling plant, has lent him the money to stage an elaborate bluff. The "parade of stars" consists of Don Pepe's nephew, cousin, stepdaughter and daughter. What follows is a show biz nightmare of ineptitude - jugglers who drop their props, dancers who bump into each other and acrobats who cannot hold each other up. The decrepit old black blues singer and guitarist faces the back of the stage, thumps his foot, forgets all his music and caroms into the pit. Perhaps the funniest skit is one featuring Toulouse-Lautrec, who slithers around with...
...very theme. Bruce Jay Friedman's short story, on which the movie is based, has lost its comic edge in this post-Portonoy era, so much so that the ethnic overtones in the film are often annoying. That this picture, technically excellent in so many ways, should bump up against thematic cliches which become embarrassments and irritants, is an indication that the arts and entertainment people have milked dry yet another erstwhile sacred...
...ruled Canada's 28th Parliament with the confident, almost imperious air of a ringmaster. But as he faced a new Parliament last week, with his Liberal Party stripped of its fat majority by the October election, Trudeau was tiptoeing on a tightrope. Waiting in the wings, eager to bump him off his perch and form a new government, stood the Progressive Conservative Party, which has only two fewer seats than Trudeau's Liberals. Trudeau is still aloft, and could remain there for months-or he could topple in a matter of days or weeks. It depends less...
...Today Apple Mountain has grown to 200 ft., and it bristles with eight ski lifts, an eight-nozzle snowmaking machine, an equipment shop, a ski school and a lodge. On winter weekends, as many as 2,400 people turn out to ski down what they call "Bintz's Bump" or "Bintz's Folly." Some folly. Near by, Farmer Bintz is scraping together another 250-ft. slope...
From Bintz's Bump to the Sierras, from the Tetons to the Tatras, ski lifts are rising almost wherever the ground does. Molehills are being made into mountains, and a significant segment of humanity is rushing to slide down them. This Christmas, start of the holiday week in which ski-area operators do about one-third of their business for the year, more people than ever will be heading for the hills. Michigan auto executives and plant workers will politely jostle one another for spots in the half-hour lift lines at some of that state...