Word: selfdestructive
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...raid seems so childishly conceived that one must assume it was not intended to succeed. Was it Carter's Watergate, an attempt to selfdestruct...
...knit all the plot strands together. Even though the film is relentlessly busy - there seems to be a physical gag in every shot - it has little of the director's usual narrative drive. The movie's story does not so much move forward as gradually selfdestruct. At times 1941 drags to a com- plete and stultifying halt: a lengthy dancehall brawl, conceived along the lines of a massive Laurel and Hardy pie fight, somehow comes out both mirthless and meanspirited...
...earliest embroidered versions of the Nativity are the apocryphal "infancy gospels" dating from the first centuries A.D., which, for good reason, the church never included in the New Testament. The Gospel makes the flight into Egypt a series of miracles. A mule turns into a boy; idols selfdestruct. Another apocryphal story illustrated Jesus' childhood power by noting that he struck dead a boy who had run into him and knocked him down. Joseph, in despair, expresses his fears to Mary and wonders whether Jesus should...
...lights on Broadway glow a little brighter now that one of the master funnymen of the age is back. When Victor Borge delivers a line, the words seem to selfdestruct. He swallows them between hilariously elongated pauses and then utters small, satisfied, digestive burps. At the grand piano he can make his fingers seem all toes, or wings. The timing is impeccable, the professionalism unflawed. One never knows whether he regards his props - the microphone, the piano, the piano bench - as allies or enemies...
...dollar you lose on the commodities market as a bucket of coal you'll have to shovel some day, then you're bound to be a bad trader." A onetime philosophy student at De Paul University, Dennis has observed: "People in my business have a tendency to selfdestruct. I think it's far more important to know what Freud thinks about death wishes than what Milton Friedman thinks about deficit spending...