Word: rotunds
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...Candy's performance in his first feature film is only slightly funnier than Jason Robards' starring performance in The Day After. Actually, the script of Summer Rental has more to do with this movie's quality than Candy's performance does, and one feels sorry for the rotund actor who tries admirably, but can't save this sagging film...
...fine script and excellent potpourri of supporting actors round off this special movie. Bert Young appears as a rotund godfather type figure, who revels in good pasta and his small network of not-so-efficient hoods...
They did not, however, reckon with the nerve of the rotund, mustachioed man who suddenly appeared among the bystanders watching the parade only 200 yards from the official reviewing stand. Before security forces could decide how to react, he deftly slipped between the ranks of marching workers, accompanied by a phalanx of his followers. Then, as the local Communist Party leader and the police chief of Gdansk looked down from the tribunal in stunned disbelief, the cocky interloper flashed a V-for-victory sign. A visiting Soviet party leader failed to recognize him and returned his salute with a cheery...
...rotund man with the barrel chest and impeccable mustache would sit down at the piano, pop his fingers a couple of times to get the rhythm just right and, boom, his band would take off. Reeds and brasses would blast out in an ensemble sharp enough to shave with, trombones explosively punctuating the seductive murmurs of the saxophones. As the smoke cleared, there would be the piano, light and airy in the right hand, gentle in the left, keeping the whole thing together. "I'm only part of the rhythm section," William (''Count") Basie would...
...practice tee, where Roberto De Vicenzo is hitting balls beside Bob Goalby, and Billy Casper is looking unusually rotund in billowing plus fours, memories are almost enough. There is Mike Souchak. In 1960, when Palmer became Palmer, Souchak could have won the U.S. Open, and everything might have been different. Next to him is Orville Moody, whose only tour victory was the 1969 Open, about the last time he made a putt. Then Doug Sanders, who lost the British Open in 1970 on a 2½-footer. "Sometimes I go as long as five minutes," Sanders says, "without thinking about...