Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington used to get a good chuckle from a gag about life in the White House with Dick and Pat Nixon. On a typical evening in the mansion, the phone rings and the caller asks the President what he is doing. Answers Nixon: "I'm just sitting here reading the Constitution, and Pat is knitting an American flag...
...Ishtar, they get muddled up with Isabelle Adjani, whom they both mistake for a boy at first; a CIA operative (Charles Grodin) who is not nearly so smooth a counterrevolutionary as he thinks he is; and a blind camel that provides the film with its best running -- actually stumbling -- gag...
...last part of Ishtar returns to the funny, fast pace of the early scenes in New York. There's a great gag having to do with a blind camel and a scene in which Hoffman pretends to speak a Berber dialect is hysterical...
...state secret), he has run through every diet conceived by man, from cottage cheese to rice, and been defeated by them all. But he struggles on good-naturedly in the White House mess. He wears button-down shirts that rumple spectacularly, and he is still followed by the old gag that somebody must wrinkle his suits before he dresses for work...
...didn't disrupt the speech. The vice-consul was free to continue speaking after the blockade was formed, while members of the audience filled the auditorim with a rousing rendition of "We Shall Overcome" and a member of the ANC sollicted the audience for money. No one put a gag on Kent-Brown. No one beat him with a club. It was the fascist Conservative Club and the bubble-headed police who took Kent-Brown out. They should be put before the Ad Board for quashing free speech...