Word: heard
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...center of such controversies, produced a film entitled The Speaker. The 42-minute color movie describes a fictional controversy that develops when a high school student committee invites a scientist to explain his belief that blacks are genetically inferior to whites. The speaker, who is never actually seen or heard, is finally banned by the school board...
...Monty Python several years ago. Indeed, I credit the comedy troupe's Monty Python's Previous Record with having taught me the true, wrenched-gut meaning of a guffaw. The divine mission to convert friends to the joys of these whacked-out Britons soon followed this revelation; I had heard the true sound of comedy, and it had a funny accent...
ONLY THOSE PEOPLE who have never heard of or listened to these two British comedy acts can hope to derive any kind of enjoyment from Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe. For the rest of us, sitting through this 90-minute waste of celluloid is akin to viewing a series of old Johnny Carson monologues strung together; you know exactly what's coming, and the pleasure lies exclusively in the anticipation, not in the misbegotten result. However, in all fairness to the individuals responsible for this film, they certainly knew what they were doing. Towards the end of Monty Python...
...heard there was no sickness...
Roschin can touch the heart, but he also smothers its beat in interminable bouts of rhetoric. If a character says, "We are all in this together," rest assured you have not heard the line for the last time. He can achieve piercing moments of self-revelation, only to resort to vaudevillian bits of bawdry or sink into bathos...