Word: foolproof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea seemed foolproof enough to its creator, Kyriazis, who pushed the program after a friend of his at the University of Pennsylvania set up a similar organization there...
Trapper John, M.D. (Sept. 23, CBS, 10 p.m.). This M-A -S-#spin-off is the most misproduced show of the season: a seemingly foolproof idea completely spoiled by, well, fools. The series picks up its title character (originally played on television by Wayne Rogers) 28 years after Korea. Nowadays Trapper John is chief of surgery at a San Francisco hospital, and he is acted with consummate world-weariness by Pernell Roberts. A few grafted-on references to M*A*S*H notwithstanding, the show turns out to be nothing but an inept Marcus Welby retread. The plotting is vague...
...there is such a thing as a foolproof movie, Escape from Alcatraz must be it. Throw together Clint Eastwood, an airtight jailbreak plot, a first-rate storyteller like Director Don Siegel ... and what could possibly go wrong? As it happens, almost nothing. True, Escape from Alcatraz embraces virtually every cliché known to prison movies. Eastwood does not exactly break new ground as an actor either. Yet this film's familiarity ends by breeding affection rather than contempt. When an old-fashioned genre piece is executed with spirit, audiences can rediscover the simple, classic pleasures of moviegoing...
...question: Why are people happy or why not? And more fundamental, what is happiness? The young science is far from the practical goal of providing guidance on how to attain happiness. "Alas," says Freedman, "the overwhelming finding of all the research is that there is no easy solution, no foolproof strategy for finding...
Another of Murphy's Laws. It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.−Anonymous...