Word: custards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pass for gaiety. All the rushing around is punctuated with blurted moralisms that are supposed to give the film some depth; as Jos tries to coax her back to bed, guiltstricken Georgy worries about her roommate's baby, born two hours earlier, and observes that "God always has a custard pie up his sleeve...
...FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. Broadway's best burlesque show has been hurled at the screen like a custard pie; but despite Director Richard Lester's extravagant cinematics, Top Bananas Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford and Buster Keaton keep 'em laughing at the good and bawd goings on in Nero's Rome...
...novel is a lot of fun, but it is hard to make a real hero emerge from a blizzard of custard pies; Kingsley Amis (One Fat Englishman), scored better in the U.S. Besides, not many native readers will share the conviction that American activities are inherently comic because they are un-English...
...Raymond Cartier saw Johnson as a "professional politician" completely lacking in "the serene authority of Eisenhower, the charm and romanticism of Kennedy." Cartier found something almost sinister in the fact that Lady Bird, upon reading "Quiche Lorraine" on a White House menu, scratched it out and wrote in: "Cheese Custard Pie." Cartier has since come around to an appreciation of Johnson that might satisfy even Johnson. "Because of him, I see America in the process of launching into a second revolution," says Cartier, "a peaceful revolution brought about with increasing worker ownership of capital, the triumph of free enterprise. Look...
...attack; in Santa Monica, Calif. A onetime London music hall comic, Laurel was the brain behind the gags and the on-screen butt of them all, the watery-eyed, squeaky-voiced noodlehead who caught Jean Harlow's dress in a car door in Double Whoopee and absorbed the custard pies in The Battle of the Century, spilled the paint, upset the ladders and destroyed the autos, all of which invariably earned him a klonk over the head and a snort from Ollie: "Another fine mess you got us into...