Word: extravaganzas
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Irwin Allen wrote the script for the cagers' Christmas vacation disaster extravaganza. No lives were lost, but the Crimson crumbled at Manhattanville, 65-55, on December 15 and simply sunk against Providence, 60-43, the next...
...focus most of his attention on the crisis, the President canceled two political trips: one a quickie visit to the Northwest, the other a four-day cross-country swing. He also scaled down his plans for his formal announcement of candidacy this week. Instead of the extravaganza originally planned, he will probably make a low-key speech from the Oval Office, then briefly drop by a fund-raising dinner in Washington...
...then again, neither could Yale. The Bulldogs, who came onto the ice singing and cheering each period, showed a much stronger bark than bite for the first two periods, with skating that looked more like a Marx Brothers extravaganza than a hockey game...
...though described as "very chic, very in, very high style," looks like a floating Ramada Inn. The script is a graveyard of unintentional boners. In one particularly cross moment, Savalas snarls, "Am I a fool? Do you think I talk just to hear my head rattle?" In this sweeps extravaganza, such questions are invariably -and giddily- rhetorical...
...this year's disaster-movie sweepstakes, the film to beat is The Concorde -Airport '79. That hilarious-some might say seminal-extravaganza boasted such passengers as Susan Blakely as an investigative reporter, Cicely Tyson as a heart-transplant courier and Andrea Marcovicci as a Soviet Olympic gymnast...