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Word: rocapulco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Flintstones fares better than Maverick. In Bedrock the finest restaurant is the Cavern on the Green. Down at the drive-in they're playing Tar Wars. People talk about spending a relaxing week in Rocapulco. Puns may be the lowest form of humor, but in this movie such wordplay is the only possible accompaniment for the pictureplay that runs throughout this merry story of "a modern Stone Age fam-il-ee": newspapers carved in stone; cars powered by feet; prehistoric creatures employed as primitive, parodic versions of contemporary labor-saving devices (dinosaurs are adapted to be lawn mowers, garbage disposals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Maverick Is Painless, the Flintstones Is Fun | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

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