Word: riotously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reiffel more than makes up for the problems in the opening with a riotous climax in the second act in which Annie and Norman collapse onto the lawn in a tumult of passion as Reg and Tom chat obliviously only a few feet away...
...overcast sky grew darker Saturday afternoon, Joe Restic sat quietly with reporters in the comfort of Dillon Field House. In the background, you could hear the crazed screams of a jubilant Harvard football team, celebrating its first win in six weeks with riotous commotion in the locker room...
...junk like The Betsy and The Boys from Brazil became memorable in his hands: Who could forget his parody of a Midwestern accent in the former or his rapturous cigarette smoking in the latter? Olivier is such a sly devil that he could make his Oscar acceptance speech, a riotous stream of sheer poppycock, sound as though it were a Shakespearean soliloquy. As TV audiences saw, it was enough to addle Fellow Oscar Winner Jon Voight's brain for the rest of the night...
...human traumas more openly. A wide difference in Simon's handling of painful experience divides Come Blow Your Horn, his first production, from Chapter II, his latest straight play. Come Blow Your Horn transformed the attempts of Simon and his brother to break away from home into a mechanically riotous farce. Chapter II, on the other hand, recreated his efforts to build a new life after his wife's death so sensitively that critics hailed the play as a breakthrough in his writing...
...guts to make an honest movie about college life. From Good News to Love Story, from Campus Confidential to The Paper Chase, Hollywood has chosen to regard the campus as a haven for earnest young lovers, gung-ho jocks, inspirational professors and tortured class losers. Animal House, a riotous farce set at fictional Faber College in 1962, presents quite another picture. The film's so-called animals-the inhabitants of Faber's most disreputable fraternity house-are a filthy, outrageous lot. They guzzle and spit beer, drive motorcycles indoors, dump Fizzies in the school swimming pool, pile...