Word: screwier
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...people as they wrestle down words like capybara and omphaloskepsis in their efforts to win a trip to the national spelling finals. Coming on the heels of the documentary Spellbound (which Disney wants to make into a musical too), it's an utterly charming look at one of the screwier manifestations of the American Dream...
...again, that should be all that matters. Stephanopoulos, for example, has good reason to resent Morris, who replaced his war-room comrade Carville as chief strategist. But Stephanopoulos found common ground with Morris, slipping into the same role he played for Carville as an antidote to the resident genius' screwier ideas. He saves Morris--and Clinton by extension--from crashing and burning. On the night of the Israeli election, when the race was too close to call but exit polls had Prime Minister Shimon Peres in front of challenger Benjamin Netanyahu, Morris wanted Clinton to go in front...
...Karson splashed the Rialto's lobby with Frankenstein, Zombis, King Kong, a skeleton dangling from a scaffold, a ghoul sucking a lollipop. On his signature alp (about a foot high), by way of contrast, he put Laurel & Hardy. All are done with skilled caricature, are no screwier than the career of the young fellow who painted them. Son of a former Russian court painter, he came to the U. S. when he was four. At twelve he joined a Chicago little theatre as assistant to its art director...
...sends in loco parentis. She needs all her courage when it deposits her among his screwy family. Auntie is horoscopic, Cousin Barbara is spoiled, Cousin Walter just asks apprehensively: "Does she still sing?" Bulb-eyed, bulgy Uncle Jim (Eugene Pallette, who has had experience as father of an even screwier family in My Man Godfrey) manages to be out when his family is home, home when they are out. Connie quickly warbles her way into the butler's heart by singing La-calle's Amapola, is soon a popular hit below stairs, where the servants pool their savings...
...delay was occasioned by the death of an obscure 63-year-old brother of the Dictator, who "had to attend the funeral." Suspecting that something even screwier than what had been arranged was now afoot, friends of the Young Marshal went about swearing that he was ''not being treated fairly," and in Nanking several quarreling schools of thought about the kidnapping grew...
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