Word: indistinctness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Lanchester attains no minor milestone. In Little Me Sid Caesar created a six distinct comic roles. Lanchester goes one step further--he creates six indistinct ones. On several occasions, though, he is very funny to watch as he combines verbal and visual dexterity. He makes the Shakespearian buffoon, Tedious, into a physically contorted Elizabethan-pretzel...
...Funnyman Sellers flitting into a jewelry store disguised as Monsieur Jules, the famous French couturier. As the jeweler dials the combination of his safe, Monsieur makes movies of the process with a hidden camera, and all the while permits a hilariously snaky little smile to slither through his indistinct mustache. A few days later Sellers holds a private screening for some of the boys. "That's all for todye," he says briskly as the show concludes. "Nex' week we'll 'ave a prowgram uv eddikytional an' trynin' films, startin' wiv Rififi...
...cinemas of Boston and its sister city, Cambridge, surprise me by the indifferent quality of their projection," Marcorelles says. "The sound is often indistinct, the focusing poor...
...crisis has also brought about an indistinct but significant change in the Administration's policy toward Cuba itself, and toward Cuba in relation to the rest of Latin America. Some of the fervid Congressional cries for Castro's blood have lately become more muffled. True, there was the strange incident of the President's speech last month to the released Cuban prisoners, which through unfortunate overtones of "liberation" elicited shouts of war from the exiles. Were the overtones deliberate? Nobody knows, but it remains fairly clear Washington really has stopped depending on an invasion...
False Teeth. On the hustings. Sir Roy ("Royboy" to his jovial white audiences) is a shouting, sweating but engaging demagogue, his inevitable red suspenders maintaining a tenuous hold on his tentlike trousers. When his speech grows indistinct, he merrily apologizes for his badly fitting false teeth. He accuses Britain of "pandering to pan-Africanism." has called London's Lancaster House, where the Rhodesian constitutional conferences took place, "that place of infamy...