Word: plunks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liberals, has gotten into the act. "Star Rider" has "all the controls and special effects necessary for trips to distant galaxies." When it turns out that all that seperates you and distant galaxies is three different kinds of sirens on a plastic dashboard, you feel almost cowardly not to plunk down...
...better places do not curdle the diner's juices with Tin Pan Aloha plunk-plunk music. Some of the most memorable songs are English or American ballads rendered in Hawaiian to a Hawaiian beat; The Battle Hymn of the Republic sounds terrific that way. Many other chants have their island-English versions, to wit: The Twelve Days of Christmas, in which "my tutu [grannie] give to me one mynah bird in one papaya tree, two coconut, three dried squid, four flower lei, five fat pig, six hula lesson, seven shrimp as wimming, eight ukulele, nine pound...
Certainly many will applaud this movie as a daring work. It was always there to be done, one supposes, and there are enough Tolkien freaks around who will plunk money down to see their dream come to life...
...grandson of the company's founder, Weyerhaeuser worked his college summers in sawmills and after graduation moved into lumber sales, becoming the firm's chairman in 1955. Mindful of the need to replant his forests, Weyerhaeuser once observed that there are few men "who are willing to plunk down $1 million every year on ventures that won't pay off until the middle of the next century...
Alas, the picture does not come off because execution does not match conception. Simon's literary palette is as lacking in delicate hues as Director Moore's visual one. It is bold to plunk Rick's cafe down in Sam Spade's San Francisco. It is even mildly funny to have Victor Laszlo require his wife's old lover to help him get not letters of transit so he can escape the Nazis but a liquor license so he can open a French restaurant in Oakland. But when the song that reminds Rick...