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Word: slapstick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time this three-hour flight of fancy floats into its finale--complete with a duel and the usual matchmaking--the audience is more than ready to get off the plane. The ungainly plot and romantic leads nearly sink the fantastic minor players and amusing slapstick comedy. In the end, though, the levity and enthusiasm pull through and keep the show from crashing...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Too Much Cargo, Too Little Fuel | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

...great American film makers. He gained his greatest credit, perhaps, for his astute direction of Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffanys. His series of Pink Panther movies with the late Peter Sellers is also memorable for providing some of the greatest moments of slapstick comedy in American cinematic history...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Blake Edwards' Skin Flick | 3/3/1989 | See Source »

...beginning of the show is a clear indication of what is to come, as dazzling individual performances and choreography carry through an other-wise weak script. Most lines fall flat, devoid of the slapstick well-known to shows past...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Hasty Pudding Theatricals: Puttin' on the Blitz | 2/22/1989 | See Source »

...dangerous movie because it could lead to complacency. Things haven't changed that much." Says David Halberstam, who covered the 1964 Freedom Summer for the New York Times: "Parker has taken a terribly moving and haunting story and he has betrayed it, turned it into a Martin-and-Lewis slapstick between the two cops. It's a bad movie: 'Mississippi False...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Fire This Time | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159; integral, radical, u, dv; slapstick, slide rule, MIT."--The school cheer for MIT, which played its first varsity football game in 87 years...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: National Polls Bleed Crimson | 12/16/1988 | See Source »

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