Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AFTER FIVE MONTHS, Heaven's Gate is back, a magnificent, elephantine joke of a movie. There's preverse pleasure in watching such a grandiose bad movie, a $35-million B-picture...
Behan, though, felt that The Hostage seemed contrived. Drawing from the music hall tradition of entertainment, the play includes songs and dances that serve more to keep the audience amused than to accelerate the plot or enhance a theme. In an awkward second act scene, the actors break character, joke about the author, and have a little party onstage. It's strange interlude that seems merely thrown in to break up the play's growing tension and fails to fit into The Hostage's overall scheme...
...visitor knows this. Still, the Spruce Goose is a surprise. The mind is ready for a ponderous bad joke. The funny name suggests this. So does the knowledge that for more than three decades Hughes hid the enormous wooden flying boat, with its 320-ft. wingspan (it is the largest plane ever built), behind security so tight that some of his hangar maintenance men never got to see the aircraft. The big hangar itself, a cantilevered, air-conditioned marvel on Terminal Island at Long Beach, Calif., is being demolished now, sold off by what is left of Hughes' Summa...
Rants have a reputation for butting in, according to a joke that circulated in the second grade in 1968, and evidently the URI Rants are in the habit of preserving...
...rendered virtually (I do so miss Scott and Zeida) incomprehensible. And as the drops (Things will never let up for Luciano now that he's published) pile up (I'll never forget breakfast with Al and Casper) on each other overwhelming (Sissy has always known how to tell a joke) all other forms of expression, the name dropper's ruin is com-(Charlie and Di are such a perfect couple) plete...