Word: falterer
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...book by John Addey and Harvey McGregor does falter in spots, but the stickier lines lead into songs, and are necessary for shifting the mood from comedy to the romantic. Besides, anything that ushers Barnet on stage is forgiven many failings...
...family situation (a harried father, plagued by his precocious children, his inlaws, and his television), the action moves through several disconnected crises. Father kicks the TV set in the tube three times, argues with his wife, and discovers that his offspring talk knowingly about premarital relations. When these gags falter, there are always the in-laws to lampoon, not to mention a dumb blonde, included just to make sure no comical opportunities are missed...
...fairly well handled, chiefly by making the actors move more and the camera less. The cutting from one scene to another is a little heavyhanded, but the eye soon learns to allow for it, and the light skip from scene to scene, so necessary in comedy, does not seriously falter...
This was an odd football game, one which started with a overpowering display of Harvard running power, but which saw Brown falter when hindered by a bad call on a kick, fight back in the second half, and then almost tie up the game...
...Benson plan requires that the states pay a large share of their conservation expenses; this means that poor but deeply eroded states like Arkansas will falter in land-saving measures. Threats of floods encompassing entire river-valleys will find separate state conservation agencies powerless to employ the control measures which formerly the Soil Conservation Service would use as a matter of course...