Word: coos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offensive. His newest target for simple patronization is fat people. THE DUMPLINGS (NBC, Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. E.S.T.)-don't you just love the title?-are chubby James Coco and padded Geraldine Brooks. They are the proprietors of a Mom and Pop lunch counter who are required to coo repulsively at each other and rub flab, while their slender customers express ironic wonder that these lard tubs are actually happier than they are. Gross...
...elevator doors close behind you on the seventh floor of William James Hall, the stink of pigeon droppings consume the air. To your right is a laboratory filled with behavioral science's elite corps of experimental organisms. There they coo and peek in their numbered lofts, the proud and nameless pigeon menagerie that once controlled and were controlled by B.F. Skinner. At one time, some of these birds played ping pong in Skinner boxes. Some spend time dancing together--also in boxes. Some were conditioned to hobble around in figure eights. Others were lucky enough...
When Birdie comes to the town of Sweet Apple he sings "You Got to be Sincere" and town's women shriek, coo and spoon over the rotating hips of the star. As part of the spoof, the director has emphasized the sexual overtones and their excitement is transformed into something very much like masturbation. One woman, sitting in the front row with her seven-year-old child was so shocked, was so shocked she walked...
...miserable and fighting hard as they try to scrounge a scrap of grace and dignity from the shambles of this shopgirl's religious romance. Liv Ullmann and Peter Finch first met on screen in Lost Horizon, an unnatural disaster of a movie which required them to bill and coo at each other while chorus boys in loincloths leapt all about them. In The Abdication, they bill and coo once again-this time with spiritual fervor...
There is the film's beginning, for example. It is 1874 and a group of legally free but exploited blacks is laying railroad tracks under the hot sun. The white boss man demands a song--"a nigger song"--to pass the time. The blacks huddle together and sweetly coo Cole Porter's "I Get A Kick...