Word: sequitur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Judge and The Assassin ends with a cinematic non sequitur; a strike breaks out in a never-before-mentioned-factory, Isabelle Huppert, last seen as the sodomized mistress of Rousseau, now appears as an aspiring diva, singing Bouvier's favorite ballad-off-key, and the entire striking mob is bathed in a Hallmark card glow. The police prepare to shoot and the screen goes black as these significant words appear: "in the year that Joseph Bouvier killed twelve children, 16,000 died in the mines of France." Both facts are terrible; is Tavernier suggesting that Bouvier should not have been...
Bergman, a satirical detective novelist (Hollywood and LeVine) and sometime Mel Brooks collaborator (Blazing Saddles), has a splendid knack for the non sequitur. He thinks nothing of interrupting a tense action sequence for throwaway lines about freeze-dried coffee or The Price Is Right. His inventive writing could not be in the hands of a better cast. Sounding a bit like the bastard son of Bugs Bunny and Humphrey Bogart, Falk delivers his wildest speeches with a cool sincerity that bespeaks true comic madness. Arkin is the wailing violin that accompanies Falk's gravel-toned bass. Together these actors...
...Jankowski knocked in a rebound for his first career goal to give the Big Red a 3-0 lead before a non sequitur briefly interrupted the festivities--Jon Garrity inched the puck past Brain Hayward at 9:34 to give Harvard the cheap thrill of trailing Cornell by only two goals...
...them. Ha ha ha, just kidding. No, really, I was. I do this for free, out of love for my fellow students, and because if I went to a shrink he would charge me $50 an hour to listen to me while you do it free. Thank you. Non sequitur Eric B. Fried
Natural gas is a critically scarce fuel in the U.S.-but there is no detectable shortage of cow manure. A howling non sequitur? Not to the U.S. Department of Energy. It has granted $938,000 for a pilot project to turn cattle waste into methane, a form of natural...