Word: loadings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Agreed: the hero, Captain Bluntschli, does load his revolver with chocolates and does flee the battlefield when the Bulgarian army mounts a charge, but this is not comedy, this is the natural response of a reasoning man to the horrors of war. How opposed to the flatulent conceits of the Bulgarians, for whom heroism is embodied by bewhiskered Sergei Saranoff leading the harebrained charge, and for whom "higher love" is typified by the couple that coos and clutches effusively. Yet in spite of the laughter still echoing in the theater--for this is a funny play--Bluntschli wins out soberly...
Meanwhile, Columbia hurler Ed Backus hurt his own cause. With two gone in the first inning. Leigh Hogan and Joe Sciolls singled. Center-fielder Leon Goetz walked to load the bases. Backus then followed with another free pass to Barry Cronia, and Hogan trotted across with the first...
...little B & M train wheezes into the station, picks up three or four people, and heads for Boston. Early signs of construction lie along the right-of-way. Junk yards and warehouses an little further off. A solitary boxcar of the Bangor and Aroostook with a full load of potatoes peeking out an open door. The conduct appears, and collects...
Butley. At least when Alan Bates had the load, this was a tremendously funny play, literally a laugh a minute. The subject matter is unlikely--a boozy English English professor at a red brick university who in a single day manages to lose his wife, his job and his homosexual lover. It's impossible to predict whether or not the hard-edged English ability to turn pathos into comedy will be well reproduced at Dunster House, but if the Dunster House British Comedy Evening last year was any indication, they have the ability to do very well indeed. At Dunster...
...when he is undercutting the solemn - and often inhuman - pomposities of power on display. This movie's first sequence, for example, shows the musketeers' efforts to rescue a spy from a firing squad, greatly assisted by the fact that a) it requires something like five minutes to load and aim a matchlock gun and b) using this very latest thing in weaponry, an entire squad of men is likely to miss a stationary target not ten paces away. A little later the French monarch and his retinue pause on their way to a siege for a little lunch...