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...Brentwood home. The courtroom drama that followed has grown increasingly tedious (anybody know what Judge Ito's right profile looks like?). But that evening-long episode of The Fugitive, with play-by-play from Barbara Walters, Tom Brokaw and seemingly every local newscaster in Los Angeles, was the daffiest media spectacle of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Television of 1994 | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

...importance of their culture and religion, while on the periphery the men debate a host of topics from current headlines. But in form and uproarious dialogue the play is a commercial comedy. On that level, Sisters is a delight and is exquisitely performed, especially by Kahn as the ditsiest, daffiest and ultimately most devious of this matriarchal clan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reborn With Relevance | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

...things have been going this season, that question is about as easy as a Chem 20 exam. Crimson hockey mentor Bill Cleary echoes the sentiment around the division. "This is the zaniest, daffiest year I can recall. Anyone who would make predictions now would be out of his mind...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: ECAC Hockey Race Still Wide Open | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

...Funnywoman Paula Prentiss, 23, is a Texas skyscraper (5 ft. 9¼ in.) who can look slim Jim in the eye without a periscope, and can come on and cut up like a junior-miss Rosalind Russell. If humor were measured in inches, Hutton and Prentiss would be the daffiest double in show business; since it isn't, they are merely the most promising young pair of romanticomedians currently in camerange. Last year they got off to a funning start in Where the Boys Are, then made a clattering success of The Honeymoon Machine. Now they have imparted their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bumper Crop of Nuts | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

These tykes are acting the daffiest of all murder plays, Arsenic and Old Lace, at a special Broadway matinee. They are students at Manhattan's Professional Children s School, which does not train child actors, but educates them and where classmates are apt to turn up of a morning with dyed hair or altered features. These Lds thought nothing of playing such parts in Arsenic as a pair of motherly old poisoners, a drama critic who loathes the theater, a clank who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, a killer who tries to look like Boris Karloff. Old hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: MOPPETUNITY KNOCKS | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

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