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...they take on rolfing, pyramid power and even something called movagenics, which invites its adepts to drop down on all fours and crawl around looking for their lost center of consciousness as if it were a cuff link that had rolled under the bed. Indeed, the movie's funniest moment occurs when Robert Preston, a Texas oilman who owns the team, attempts to proselytize for this cult. He has had an office built to facilitate practice of his new faith. It has a teeny-tiny door you can enter only on your knees, a legless desk resting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Good Ole Boys | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...funniest and most acid part of the book comes when Grant Parke, the clown of the otherwise uniformly self-serious group, meets Paris Green, the local Panther leader...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Them Ol' Walking Blues | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

Parallel Botany is the most complete (and only) full-scale guide to this large, bizarre, highly diversified and totally imaginary world. It is also one of the funniest and most brilliant parodies of scientific jargon and scholarship ever published. Standard verdure grows and decays; Lionni's plants do neither. Instead, writes Lionni, they exist outside of time, "like a memory that has taken on actuality." These matterless, insubstantial greens, he notes, "though impervious to any violent acts of nature, disintegrate at the least contact with an object alien to their normal environment, dissolving into dust and leaving only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Garden of Unearthly Delights | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

Call Diane Keaton, the shy, gangly, lost-and-found soul who is Annie in Annie Hall, the funniest woman now working in films. Small praise. Give or take Lily Tomlin, it is hard to think of another woman now being funny in films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love, Death and La - De - Dah | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...October 1. She's gotta be kidding. This is a rock column, y'know...Hey, but seriously, kids, if Steve and Eydie live up to their promise, and sing to the accompaniment of a punk-rock band, it should be quite an evening. Rickles--hey! Ain't he the funniest thing since orthopedic shoes, yeah you, the lady and I use the term loosely in the front row. Ha Ha. Hey--GO FOR IT. Tickets only cost 10 bucks, 20 tops. Ha Ha. Orthopedic shoes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Was Your Summer? | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

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