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Laughing 20's melts resistance with the team's first co-starring effort, Putting Pants on Philip, made in 1926 under Supervising Director Leo Mc-Carey, with George Stevens as cameraman. Stan plays a kilted skirt-chaser, accompanied by shamefaced Ollie through shrewdly orchestrated slapstick etudes. From Soup...
Nonetheless, many New Yorkers consider the mayor's duties to be increasingly anachronistic-inevitably involved in such a flood of ceremonial and political functions that the actual management of the city has been left to a timid bureaucracy. It has become a New Yorker's cliche that the...
Stock Gag. Lindsay's major opponent, Democrat Abraham David Beame, 59, is a diminutive (5 ft. 2 in.), Jewish bookkeeper and longtime machine politician who became comptroller under Wagner. Bland and cliche-inclined, Beame droned on and on about "sound fiscal policy," no matter how glassy-eyed his audiences...
"The one thing that's true about the independents," a common cliche goes, "is that they're independent of each other." Thus, although the mayor is elected by the Council, and although the independents have had 5-4 majorities for the last two sessions, they have been unable to elect...
The Impossible Years contains every cliche ever put on magnetic tape for a family-situation series, every joke bandied about virginity since the Etruscans, and every stereotyped symbol of the rock-'n'-roll rebel from blue jeans to narcotics. All the pay-TV show at Broadway's...