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Word: mumbler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is especially true of the family whose story forms the core of the film. There is an old man (Roberts Blossom), a senile mumbler who springs to youthful life when he is gossiping with truckers; his caretaker son (Paul Le Mat) who sets himself up as a kind of CB vigilante, policing those who abuse CB privileges; an athletic-coach brother (Bruce McGill) who hates both of them and anonymously threatens vengeance on them; a schoolteacher (Candy Clark) who has had it off with both of them, but who turns out to be the aforementioned dirty talker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Enormous Radio | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...movies he did make were sometimes indifferent (A Countess from Hong Kong, Morituri) and sometimes disastrous (Appaloosa, Bedtime Story). More and more, people began believing the stories that had long circulated of his behavior on the set: that he was a moody, intractable mumbler, a troublemaker whose whims sent budgets and blood pressures skyrocketing, a brilliant burden who dragged everything down with his sagging box office appeal. In fact, there was more and more truth to the stories. In 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty almost literally lived up to its title when Brando worked against the grain of the production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Self-Portrait of an Angel and Monster | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

...LaCour every Friday night when I was 13 because my parents and I went to see, but not understand, the Florida Symphony, me, the Asst. Editor of the Sand Crab who wrote the lead story on "Homecoming" (the tag was," ... and the easy, floating ride home. Homecoming"), me, the mumbler, trip on girls' toes spratfalling yahoo who entered the polevault once that spring and cleared nine feet coming down, joints locked, like a pinwheeling walking stick, landing thirty feet beyond the landing pit and rolling over and over until I bumped into a car, which was owned by my friend...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: America Lady Patty | 3/6/1971 | See Source »

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