Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DiPrima's cast gives a competent reading to the material, and Stoppard's clever lines could probably withstand even the most brutal student production. But simple problems mar the production, particularly failed attempts at British accents and a failure to alter annoying British colloquialisms; phrases as "wind screen" instead of "windshield," "shaving foam" instead of "shaving cream" distract the audience for no purpose. Inspector Hound, moreover, at longer than an hour, begins to grate. DiPrima would have been wiser to slice out a third of the dialogue, and concentrate on the sparkling delivery of the remainder...
SASC LEADER: WE ONLY decided 15 minutes before the speech that this was the most clever way to act, so there wasn't time to tell the police. Besides, we didn't fully realize that our blockade was only symbolic until after the event...
...origin of the acronym is not known, but it is often attributed to glib real estate agents or to clever marketing M.B.A.s bored with the term yuppie. What separates DINKs from most other Americans is a much greater percentage of discretionary income. "DINKs are one of the few groups that are doing much better than the previous generation," says Frank Levy, an economist at the University of Maryland...
...Charlie Chaplin used to play these sorts of raucous gags, and these days people like the Coen Brothers (Raising Arizona) are among its most skillful practitioners. Blake Edwards may have lost his touch recently, but this is the man who exposed Mary Poppins' (wife Julie Andrews') breasts in the clever Hollywood expose S.O.B., and it is also the man who exposed everything you ever wanted to know about Bo Derek in 10. In addition, he is the genius behind the Pink Panther movies with Peter Sellers...
Raising Arizona is strange and assuredly funny, and as such is certainly better than the more-easily digestible pap other film comedies tend to offer. But one complaint: why can't filmmakers as talented and clever as the Coens make a movie about something other than movies? I hereby call on the movie industry for two things to be done before the 1990s: 1) Take away the Coens' Steadicam and their VCR so the next movie that make will point to something other than itself: and 2) Get a bunch of Southwestern suburbanites and let them make a movie about...