Word: rollicker
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...about story lines as you enjoy the California Screamin' roller coaster (which looks old-fashioned but has a wicked 360[degrees] loop), get soaked in the Grizzly River Run's whirling rafts and shiver in merry mortal peril on the Sun Wheel (Ferris wheel) as your cab seems to rollick out of control. They're just...
...peace, give me justice, gimme good lovin'. For them, in the voluptuous bloom of youth, the '60s was a banner you could carry aloft or wrap yourself inside. A verdant anarchy of politics, sex, drugs and style carpeted the landscape. And each impulse was scored to the rollick of the new music: folk, rock, pop, R & B. The armies of the night marched to Washington, but they boogied to Liverpool and Motown...
...weren't for the director's dead-weight, this movie could probably rollick to success. All the elements are there--from Falk's bumbling to Warren Oates's sensitive performance of the gang member who cracks and blows the whistle on the thieves just two weeks before the statute of limitations runs out. Even the post-war Boston setting is faithfully captured, right down to the graffiti on the subways. But the film never takes off. At the end the robbers are led, one by one, past cheering crowds outside the courtroom. It's staged curtain call...
Wonder topped that off by bringing out three fellow blacks - Sly Stone, Eddie Kendricks and Roberta Flack - for a reprise of Superstition and a rollick ing, hand-clapping, ear-piercing finale...
...unprejudiced eye can now see that Rosa Bonheur's celebrated horses do indeed rollick with inimitable vigor, a battle scene by Meissonier can be moving, a lush nude dancer by Theodore Chasseriau genuinely sensual. Many people have always felt this, but now they can admit it without seeming hopelessly unsophisticated. Taken together and seen thus, argues Director Anthony Clark, the period was the "proudest century of French painting...