Word: raucous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notice. Frisco and the rest of the West mustered its most decadent and bizarre characters for the frivolous extravaganza which was marked by fantastic costumes and coyote yells and attended by transvestities, pimps, working women and the curious press. Hot-pink pasties, g-strings, sequins and nudity adorned the raucous proceedings--but the drag queens reportedly outdid the rest, leading one participant to comment, "Once again it's proven that...
...Classics are loose, even in their "big" games like the game at Providence. The bench is raucous and vocal, shouting approval a fancy dribbling and particularly good passing. Halftime is spent not in the locker room, but rather entirely in taking shooting practice--at home games to pop music blaring over the IAB sound system. Harvey rarely gives pregame or postgame talks...
Traces and refinements of all those influences are still present in her work, but she unites them with carefree ease, as if the connections were there before she made them. Her humor is startling and raucous, but always purposeful. The comedy complements, never contradicts, the brilliant brute force of her movie...
Inside the glazed lobby of an office building at 88 Pine Street in downtown Manhattan, another Manhattan has been hatched: a florid, jaunty and raucous chick, quite like its big mother...
ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE. All about a middle-aged widow and her smart-mouthed son trying to make a new life for themselves. Directed with raucous, stops-out vitality by Martin Scorsese and fiercely well acted by Ellen Burstyn, Diane Ladd and Harvey Keitel...