Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard baseball team laughed Brandeis and its coach. Pete Varney '71--himself a former Stalwart on the Crimson nine--off the field a couple of weeks back, 25-2 However, when the Greater Boston League standings are in the books for 1982. Brandeis, not Harvard, will have the last laugh...
First move: Victor/Victoria opens, successfully exploits reversed sex roles for a laugh, wins second prize in a beauty contest and ten dollars. Second move: Making Love presents homosexuals in every day situations, but remains cliche ridden; rests at Free Parking with no penalty, thanks to its honest, if flawed effort. Third move: Death-trap takes the luxury of using homosexuality as a heavy-handed plot manipulation, $75 dollar luxury tax levied. Final move: Partners opens. Send the producers to jail. Directly, And make them give me back my four dollars...
Although Kerwin ultimately saves Benson's life and solves the case, he nevertheless remains confined to similar stereotyping. He shakes so badly when he holds a gun that he not only drops his weapon but also falls out of a tree. We're invited to laugh along at a homosexual's ineptitude. At the beginning of the film, when he receives his assignment, Kerwin moans, "I've always been in the office.. but on the streets?!" A homosexual's place, of course, is in the home...
...writer shouldn't have to put himself in every work to make it work. What makes almost all of Allen's other work so effective is that his own ever present character has been someone everyone can laugh at but the cruel fact is that while we always laugh, we never really care what happens to him. We laugh at the guy who slips on the banana peel and think, "Thank God it wasn't me." Up till now, Allen has walked through a United Fruit warehouse to show us what we fear...
...whirlpool of undemocratic instability, slowly but steadily pulling neighboring countries into an ever-growing chasm. Once Reagan saw Nicaragua as a member of the global communist monolith. U.S. policy became little more than our attempt to prevent Fidel Castro and Leonid Brezhnev from getting the maniacal last laugh...