Word: gab
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What makes the plot bubble is the Behan people and the Behan gab. There is Pig's Eye O'Donnell the bet runner, Tralee Trembles the wino and ex-poet, M'sieu Le Tramtrack, who spent 30 years abed in an effort to collect damages from a trolley company, and the vigorous old lady of the International...
...script only interfere a little with the fun; they don't spoil it. Besides, most of the cast knows better than to take a musical's plot seriously, and they share the audience's amusement in discovering how easily gulled the Babelites are by slick talk. The gab is dispensed by a down-and-out swami (played by Mr. Morey's collaborator, Robert Paul), who wanders into Babel, promptly sells the Babelites the world, and, to dispose of a bag of cement, persuades them to build a tower commemorating their purchase. Mr. Paul's loquacity dazzles and overwhelms them...
...True to Be Good, by George Bernard Shaw. Gab is the gift and the curse of Irish playwrights. Greatly gifted though G.B.S. was, this play of his old age is a cursedly garrulous bore. At 74, Shaw apparently found the construction of a plot beneath him or beyond...
...Flubber. In The Absent Minded Professor, Neddie the Nut (Fred MacMurray) invented "flubber"-lab gab for flying rubber-and then put flubber in a flivver and flew. In this picture he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and starts blowing flubbles. Infantile? Absolutely...
...Flubber. It's that man again-Neddie the Nut, that is. Remember him? In The Absent Minded Professor, the nuttiest science-fiction farce of recent years, Neddie (Fred MacMurray) invented "flubber"-lab gab for flying rubber. In Professor the professor put flubber in a flivver and flew. In this picture he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and starts blowing flubbles. Infantile? Absolutely...