Word: duh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chatcheteh-chatch-eteh" coming from a rear shock absorber, a soothing "toketah, toketah" from my radio antennae and a "tssshhhzbbbd" from my radio. And I may well have the only door that closes with a "puh-lox-ette-kuh." I have been assured by the service manager that, "dats duh way der bill...
Such things happen, but in this picture they don't happen in a believable way. There is too much hoke in the violence, too much duh-duh in the dialogue. And the hog stompers, when not actually stomping somebody, are played for cheap laughs as a fright-wigged cast of slum-dumb characters. In real life, man, they are something else...
...present manager of the New York Yankees, is a chubby and badly drawn bruin who looked reasonably ursine on TV but on the giant screen resembles an enormous and rather soggy cinnamon cookie. He lives in Jellystone National Park but talks like a bear from the Bronx Zoo. "Duh," he announces, "I'm smahtuh dan de avidge bayuh." To prove it he assembles a battalion of "trained picnic ants" and sends them to steal chocolate cakes from tourists. Then he runs off to rescue a nifty little beige bear named Cindy from the clutches of the Chizzling Brothers...
...that wasn't what he wanted to be at all. He studied Gary's walk and he studied Gary's talk, but he might as well have tried to take the BMT to England. "Yonduh," he solemnly stated in one tale of old Baghdad, "lies duh castle uh duh Caliph, my fahduh...
Joseph is also inconsistent in his treatment of children. In the first act, right after an upward-looking soliloquy that treats very wisely of life and death, Miss Duke asks a contemporary with open-mouthed wonder, "Duh--what's an agnostic?" Miss Duke and her playmate (James Aubrey) seem mature beyond their years throughout most of the play, but in the final scene they regress practically back to the womb, before surging back into virtual senescence for some metaphysical meanderings...