Word: classicism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the battle-weary Red Sox captain popped out with two on and two out in a first-of-a-kind one-game playoff for the A.L. East crown at Fenway Park, the New York Yankees had won one of the classic games of baseball history...
Placing someone with paranormal powers among ordinary people is a classic conceit used by many television shows, including Bewitched, My Favorite Martian and I Dream of Jeannie. But Williams' pastiche of mime, light-speed improvisation and complex clowning is giving that one-joke vehicle a new velocity. Delivered with his engagingly boyish grin and calculated inflections, such gibberish as "nano, nano" (meaning hello) and "nimnul" (meaning jerk) can send audiences?and producers?into paroxysms of delight: last week the show shot up to seventh place in the Nielsens. "This guy is going to be a superstar with or without this...
Winding up its pre-Broadway tour is King of Hearts, which we found fairly entertaining. Adapted from De Broca's classic film, this musical version lacks Alan Bates and Genevieve Bujold, but contains a few good production numbers...
...nice to say, "Welcome to a new year of films at Harvard." But with "classics" passed from one house film society to the next, "classics" screened and rescreened at the Brattle, Harvard Square, etc., and "classics" remade into things like "Heaven Can Wait," currently in Boston commercial conemas, by rights you should be seeing a lot of "CLASSIC" Dewitt capsules. But maybe not. Gotta keep it fresh...
...Whatever it is, I'm against it." Chico and Harpo are spies for Sylvania, a rival power. (Chico also enjoys a brief stint as a Public Nusiance in Groucho's cabinet). Margaret Dumont is a rich widow who is quite literally Groucho's biggest backer. There are millions of classic scenes in the film, including Chico's trial for treason, a war conference that evolves into a revival meeting ("I got guns, you got guns, all God's chillun got guns."), and the famous mirror sequence. Serious critics have tried to treat the film as a sophisticated surrealistic masterpiece; that...