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Best gadget of all is human one -seven-foot thug with preternatural strength and steel teeth, which he uses to snap victims' spinal cords. Name: Jaws. Orthodontist's nightmare. Running gag is that each time he is dispatched-trapped in building cave-in, flung from speeding train, tossed into shark tank, even torpedoed-Jaws (Richard Kiel) implacably reappears. In his silly, mechanical, likable way, a perfect symbol for Bond films. They're attacked, dismissed, put out of mind, but keep coming back and back and back...
...picture's best sight gag may be leaves blowing off a calendar to symbolize the passage of time. So many of them are caught in the breeze that they knock down and almost bury Spike Milligan, playing an aged retainer trapped in their path...
Scientology Spokesman Vaughn Young denounced the raids as the work of "little Hitlers" and a "Gestapo police state." Scientology lawyers went to court to demand the return of the seized material and a gag order forbidding the authorities to reveal what they had found. Although the matter quickly bogged down in legal technicalities, most observers predicted eventual court approval for continuation of the probe...
...some cholesterol-free windbag hyperventilate about how his energy has doubled, his triglyceride level has dropped, his sexual performance is off the charts, and his life expectancy has approached that of a Galapagos tortoise, all because he has begun daily sessions on an exercise bicycle. Nothing stimulates the gag reflex so quickly as news photos of entire families-mom, dad and six children-jogging in identical warmup suits. And nothing is more appalling than, as a 10-to 15-mile-a-week runner (which is to say a moderate lunatic; some glittery-eyed types run 100 miles a week...
...duets on the way to the ale house, and Speed makes up for his raspy voice with quick foot work. Apparently, Speed's affinity for fruit is supposed to be comic, but all he ever does with the apples is eat them and the banana-rape is a tired gag...