Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name was Kelly-Major Charles Kelly, of Sylvania, Ga.-but in the manner of combat soldiers the world over, his men seldom called him by anything but his nicknames. One was "Little Napoleon," because he was only a shade over 5 ft. 6 in. tall, had intense blue eyes and a shock of unruly black hair. They also called him "Madman Kelly," for during his six months in the South Viet Nam war, he flew more helicopter missions than...
Obviously, Inspector Clouseau never does solve his case, but he manages, in a manner of speaking, to dissolve it: the suspects are all blown to bits by a bomb. Long before that hilarious moment-even though the inspector occasionally palls, and the one-joke script is much less amusing than the Broadway farce "it is broadly adapted from-most customers will have reinforced a general conviction and a popular hope: that Peter Sellers is one of the funniest men alive and that the dear fellow will please get well quick...
...irresistible impulse" by psychiatrists, who explained that such people are unable to control themselves. This condition constitutes "medical insanity," but because of an obsolete rule, he was not found legally insane. He is intelligent, but of course we know that sane persons do not behave in such a manner...
...scene has been disnuded, she wears costumes that thinly conceal the loss, and also delivers some of the film's funniest asides. Sinking into the horn-and-hide trappings of a limousine belonging to Western He-man Nevada Smith (Alan Ladd), she burbles in her best Baby Doll manner: "I feel like I've been swallowed by a buffalo...
...however, is the blowzy city of Naples, which either "mortally wounds you or puts you to sleep." The dialogue (in better-than-average translation) has a crisp, contemporary cadence, and the writing can be perceptive and well-tooled, but La Capria pushes his confusingly large cast onstage in the manner of a cinematographer who dabbles in impressionism. Though the satire shows talent and the technique is modishly modern, the mortal wounds of the characters emerge finally as that most difficult of subjects -futility...