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Word: shamblesâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1969-1969
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...heap. His stance is simian, his face an objet trouvé. The hair is from a thatched roof in Cambodia, the nose and chin from a 1948 Chevrolet, the hooded eyes from a stuffed hawk. Even the voice seems assembled, an oboe with postnasal drip. It all appears a shambles???until it begins to work, stunning audiences with articulate force. His current comedy, Jimmy Shine, is a mere vaudeville of the absurd. But within it is the vortical power of Dustin, pulling in the laughs, the cast and the audience. He growls like Durante, drones like W. C. Fields, shambles like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Moonchild and the Fifth Beatle | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

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