Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WATCHING Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks's newest movie, is like being tickled to death for two hours. In some places it works and in some places it doesn't, but when it does you're absolutely helpless. Brooks's style is characteristically high-pitched and hypertense, but his mocking glance is actually so loving and his techniques often so predictable and familiar that the effect is surprisingly soothing. This is a good movie to see when you're washed out, overworked, and don't want to think anymore. This is a good movie to see this month...
...tortured eloquence. Firth bounds from the catatonic to the hyperactive with incredible energy, as convincing as an insouciant teenager humming Doublemint jingles or a demented superman on a frenzied ride to masturbatory heaven. Like a wild animal who can be tamed according to a set of tricks he is helpless to resist, but who can disfigure the Great White Hunter in the process, Firth never becomes really threatening. His madness is not the agony of a Charles Whitman on an Austin tower, but a private horror and a private satisfaction...
...addition to the usual fainting, helpless white flower of the South, no one who was at the movie could have missed the domineering, castrating, Big Black Mama who floors black men with a single blow, and takes two soldiers out of action simply by throwing herself to the ground on top of them...
...third quarter, Dave Evans drilled a shot past the helpless goalie after a scramble in front of the Saybrook net. John Horan tallied an insurance goal as his kick bounced off a Saybrook fullback and slid between the goalie's legs...
...offers some regal praise for portly Comic Harry Secombe, veteran of Ihe BBC's Goon Show and author of the recently published Twice Brightly. Freely admitting his "hopeless bias" in Secombe's favor, the rookie reviewer disclosed to his readers that he "was shaken with spasms of helpless mirth al frequent intervals" over Secombe's novel. For his 635-word article, which was sent to Punch's office immaculately typed on Buckingham Palace stationery, Prince Charles received a not-so-princely standard fee of less than $150. Explained Punch Literary Editor Miles Kingston: "It would...