Word: ribbing
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...myth of Director Mike Nichols, invulnerable up to now, has been that he could bust a comic rib with an onionskin script, but The Apple Tree is too thin for even his nimble touch. While Barbara Harris is as saucily mocking as ever, it becomes clearer with each performance that she is more of a zany caricaturist and mimic than she is an actress. She can do instant impersonations of people and moods, but except for her 1962 performance in Oh Dad, Poor Dad, she has never developed a character. In the past, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick have written...
Chateau Louise, near Dundee, III. Prime rib is sold by the inch: $3.95 for a half-inch, $4.95 for one inch, and $6.95 for two. One room duplicates a 14th century wine cellar...
...fell toward Jackie on his left. The first shot was not fatal; the second was. The time between the two bullets' impact was between 4.8 and 5.6 seconds, said the commission. Connally, too, had been badly hurt: a bullet slammed into his back, tore across a rib and out his chest, shattered his right wrist and entered his left thigh...
Inside the theatre these days is Morgan, a brilliant meditation and now and then a brilliant motion picture. Like the sign, the movie swoops from extreme to extreme: the first half induces rib-cracking laughter; the second, sadness sometimes savage and sometimes whimsical...
...RUSSIANS ARE COMING THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING." As a Soviet sailor whose sub runs aground on an island off the New England coast, Broadway's Alan Arkin (Luv) makes light of cold war jitters in a rib-cracking feature film debut...