Word: panthers
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Constructing this elaborate seenario takes the first Third of the film, and it is a pleasure to watch. If director towards learned anything from his Pink Panther films it was how to set up a really big gag, and make the audience enjoy watching the pieces fall into place until the film blows up. In this case, the gag is the inevitable simultaneous birth of Rob's two children--at the same hospital--and it meets every expectation. Unfortunately, the madcap scene at the hospital and its aftermath only occupies the last third of the film, leaving a yawning nine...
...obsession: the only idea in the head of Inspector Clousean, the prototypical Edwards character, was his devotion to his duty. The problem with this theme in Edwards's work is that his characters can get mighty boring mighty fast. Even the protean Peter Sellers could not save the Panther films from a sense of mechanical flatness that was a reflection of the monotony of the protagonist's character. Clouseau was an original idiot, nothing more. When Sellers played a truly vacuous character in Hal Ashby's Being There, he could give the film an ironic tenderness that the Panther faces...
...match against Plymouth State's John Hayes, Clark wasted no time in grabbing the victory, pinning the Panther at 1:52 of the first round...
...moratorium is the first of its kind since the protests over the 1970 Black Panther trials in New Haven...
Although the play became more and more concentrated in the Crimson half of the pitch, Harvard did come close in the 53rd, the 57th and the 68th minutes, when Lion 'keeper Jeff Micheli saved from Catliff with panther-like quickness, often from point-blank range...