Word: messing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Technically, Oh God! is an unholy mess, with soupy music and thoroughly insensitive editing (which, for example, totally destroys the performance of William Daniels as Denver's boss, an actor whose magnificent comic timing is chopped to pieces). Maybe Reiner and Gelbart could have wrung more humor from hell instead of heaven; Exorcist II: The Heretic was infinitely more amusing...
This was the guy who inherited a team with the morale of Lamont regulars during reading period and the discipline of the Sex Pistols, and successfully cleaned up the mess that Ray Essick left behind when he abandoned the Crimson ship to take a more appropriate position in the AAU bureacracy...
...possibly to war. If Sadat did not succeed, he would lose all credibility within the Arab world. He would be left with one option, and the Israelis knew that the Egyptian President was fully prepared for that bloody alternative. Said Henry Kissinger this week: "It will take a monumental mess-up to derail Sadat's initiative. But if it fails, there will...
...Manhattan-based representative of Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta hopped on a plane for Vulcan. A Russian charity committee said it was willing to consider a donation to help reopen the Big Sandy. Said Robinette, aghast at what he had unleashed: "Lord, Lord, get me out of this mess." Happily, someone did. State Highway Commissioner Charles L. Miller suddenly announced a $500,000, one-lane bridge for Vulcan, to be built within a year. All of which caused the New York Times to suggest, tongue in cheek, that if the Soviets were truly interested in extending foreign...
This is terribly embarrassing to Soviet intelligence. Charles Bronson is the secret agent dispatched to clean up the mess before it spreads too far; Lee Remick plays the double agent who is supposed to assist him but whose real function is to fall in love with him while they try to head off Pleasence before he sets all the old agents' bells aringing. There are entertaining possibilities in this improbable story. At least it avoids being paranoid, not only about the KGB but also, more remarkably, about the CIA, a more recently fashionable whipping boy. But Director Siegel...