Word: rusticity
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...genius of UKDs (Unusual Killing Devices); each, independently, has decided to retire from the killing game. Both are then marked for "extraction" by their agencies (they know too much). To survive, the assassins must knock off the five top section bosses of their respective outfits in Colonial Williamsburg and rustic Zhukovka. The odd couple?Dirty Eddie and cosmopolitan Vasily?get to pool their talents through a seductive Washington connection named Chalice, whom they also share...
...scene is rustic Cortland, N.Y., the team Cornell, the score knotted at one-all, the pressure overbearing in the sudden-death overtime. A Cornell goal means no tomorrow in the single-elimination Eastern tournament, the first step on the ladder to the nationals. It happens. Get out the Crimson hankies...
...scenes bomb so badly, no pun intended, but there are a few others that fail both as incisive social commentary and as humor. In a sequence near the end of the film, a waiter at a rustic country restaurant with a ritzy clientele gets involved in a grotesque food fight in the kitchen with the chef, who turns out to be his lover. The slapstick technique employed here went out of vogue in America at about the same time that Hal Roach stopped making Spanky and Our Gang films. After all, squids perched atop the suddenly toupee-less head...
...when he is not teaching English at Dartmouth or writing graceful scholarly books (Dr. Bawdier's Legacy), deserves a longer hearing. True, Perrin sometimes sounds like a country snob who would be horrified if the supermarket patrons he patronizes actually swarmed to New England in search of the rustic bargains he eulogizes. But even while baiting the slickers, he is consistently entertaining...
...motives together again. Crispin, 57, may be forgiven for his long vacation from mayhem. In the real world, he maintains an identity as Composer R. Bruce Montgomery, the man who has settled the scores for dozens of British movies. As Crispin, he spikes the suspense with some hilarious rustic intermezzos worthy of Wodehouse. Glimpses should win the protean author the wide American audience that, for improbable reasons, he has never achieved...