Word: erful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Psychology is kept decently out of sight in most of the 25 horsey thrillers listed on the op-title page of Dick Francis' new entertainment. It is what goes on -- wheels turning in the murky unconscious, and all that -- when one of his characters, caught in some awkwardness, says "er . . ." That unmistakable Francis "er . . ." has got author and readers past many a potentially mushy spot and on to the good part, where the hero is gonked by hired gorillas or injected with horse tranquilizer, and then wakes up, aware that something is wrong, inside a locked steamer trunk...
...Dole, giving his theory of campaign scheduling during a recent appearance in . . . er . . . Where was it anyway? . . . Someplace near some airport in some primary state...
Welcome to Wrestling from New Jersey -- er, The Morton Downey Jr. Show, TV's wildest talk program. Since its debut two months ago on WWOR, the Secaucus, N.J.-based superstation, Downey's verbal slugfest has made Phil's and Oprah's "lively" discussions look like sherry-sipping college seminars. Critics are appalled ("A disgrace to television," said Kay Gardella of the New York Daily News), but ratings are rising, and blue-collar fans are flocking to the studio for tapings. After just two weeks, all the seats were booked through the end of the year...
...er the stands of flaming Crimson Harvard banners...
Most of the credit, though, belongs to the actors, who all overplay to the hilt. Adam Schwartz creates a perfectly blustery and "bully" Teddy Roosevelt--er, Teddy Brewster. Josh Frost is chilling as Jonathan, and thanks to Melanie Deas' make-up skills (I hope), he really does look like Boris Karloff. As the old aunts, Molly Bishop and Jennifer Donaldson find a surprisingly childish glee in their chemical activities...