Word: hunches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie is peppered with direct steals from famous stars, roles and songs, most of which originated in the '30s. The hunch-backed servant Igor (Marty Feldman) has the bulging eyes and eerie mischievousness of Harpo Marx, or of the Charles Adams cartoon character who later became known as Uncle Fester. He delivers one-liners like Groucho. Cloris Leachman, who does a terrific job of frowning and mugging through an unrewarding part, may have pilfered from Dame Judith Anderson's role in Rebecca as the forbidding keeper of the Baron's castle. Young Frankenstein stalks about with the mad intensity...
Richard Nixon's illness was to be as secretive as his presidency. Accompanied by Pat and Julie, he walked briskly into Long Beach Memorial Hospital Medical Center through a truck-dock entrance leading to the kitchens. Surprised by two hunch-playing reporters, he blurted a confused "Good morning-good afternoon." He went on up to his sixth-floor suite, located in a twelve-room wing that had been cleared of other patients to ensure his security and privacy. Then once again, the doors closed on the outside world...
Giles Constable, Lea Professor of Medieval History and a Radcliffe trustee, said last week that the Strauch committee will only be able to tell the trustees what alternatives they have, leaving the rest to the trustees' "hunch...
...added that such an issue would have to be decided by "hunch" or from parochial sentiments about Radcliffe...
...Last Picture Show. I have a hunch that this thing is going to look like fifties slop when I go back to it. It certainly was fine when it came out, but a lot of frightening stuff has gone down since then as regards that decade, and unless a second viewing proves that Bogdanovich examines the fifties without being into-it, the reject light is going...