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Bewitched Bayou was dull, though, and unless Bill Strong can re-write his book and lyrics into some better kind of shape, it's going to be a long-running clinker of a musical. Pudding shows were never supposed to get too wound up in the intricacies of plot, but Bayou's is stretched so thin it snaps between a few of the scenes...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: Bewitched Bayou | 3/1/1973 | See Source »

...Nixon corrected that clinker, he dropped another, smaller one. After tackling a passage of his speech in atrociously bad French, he apologized for his pronunciation of "a language I studied 37 years ago." He had asked his translator, Major General Vernon Walters, whether he could speak French in Ottawa, Nixon explained, and the General had told him to go ahead "because you speak French with a Canadian accent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Nixon's Mission of Reassurance | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

...from that portrayal to present a vision of a time, a place, and a culture. Arthur Penn made Alice's Restaurant that way, and came up with a great movie. David Green decided to accept society's view of what the freak scene should be like, and produced a clinker...

Author: By David Keyser, | Title: At the Paris Cinema: The People Next Door | 8/14/1970 | See Source »

Duffy--Hoo boy, a clinker. At the CHARLES, 195 Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies and Plays This Weekend | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...Duffy--Hoo boy, a clinker. At the CHARLES, 195 Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies and Plays This Weekend | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

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