Word: gumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...portentous addresses to the camera. Godard too often stops the motion to zero in on words within words-as when he finds "vie" in Riviera. And his shrill anti-Americanism is strictly on the lycée level, mocking such easy and oversized targets as Coca-Cola and chewing gum...
...murder of the dog is but the beginning of a series of bizarre deaths in which Turpin naturally becomes entrapped. Verbally shanghaied aboard an expensive yacht, Turpin finds himself in Raceport, Long Island, where he grapples with a girl who promptly chokes to death on a wad of chewing gum. Nelson Falorp, wealthy owner of the yacht, has a heart attack in the bathroom of a wharf restaurant, and Turpin becomes responsible for his unwanted corpse. Elsie Falorp jumps out the window of a hotel on Gull Island where Mandeville, Turpin and her husband's body have all been...
...Hampton headquarters, however, nothing happens. The posters are all of Nixon. The three kids in the room look like the ones in high school who chew gum too loudly and think it's really funny to wear Alfred E. Neuman sweatshirts...
...Sorensen could have done more to soften the blows the plawright's pen have wrought. With a heavy-handed script, heavy-handed performances aren't exactly the order of the day, yet that is primarily what we get from the largely freshman cast. Typical is Glenn Schewtz as the gum-chewing father. He has a strange way with a line, and Sorensen might have tried to correct the problem. Schewtz starts off slow and loud, then becomes fast and loud like a locomotive. As a result, I often had trouble hearing the end of the elder Sligar's sentences...
...think you're in a bubble-gum world...