Word: slapstick
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...Daniel and Darcy (even giving them a clumsy, yet satisfying fist-fight) is given at the expense of the Bridget’s quirky friends and family. First time director Sharon Maguire (Fielding’s inspiration for Shazzer) keeps the film moving at an easy pace, skillfully blending slapstick and an upbeat soundtrack into the story...
...addition, Bush’s foreign policy has been a tragedy, alternating between slapstick and sloppy. Some of this is not his fault. Sinking Japan’s boat and crashing China’s plane are not his doing. But scaring Russia, China and Japan by refusing to negotiate on national missile defense—that’s his fault. Embarrassing our old ally South Korea and our new acquaintance to their north by refusing to continue opening relations with North Korea—his fault. Failing to take initiative in the Middle East, despite being begged...
...season premiere 8 p.m., April 13) with the '60s' fabricated four The Monkees misses the real difference: Micky Dolenz and his pals relied on an innocent relationship between fans and stars. They were a fantasy the audience gladly bought into: they fought villains and got in slapstick trouble, and no one worried too much about the artifice that created them...
...first time since World War II, the average Japanese faces the prospect of a diminishing standard of living. It's third-rate chaos, alright, and all you want to do if you're young and cool and Japanese and know that you've been born into some pathetic slapstick routine of a nation is sit there, smirk and hope to get through it all looking good...
...This was something new in the newspaper comic strip. At mid-century the comics were dominated by action and adventure, vaudeville and melodrama, slapstick and gags. Schulz dared to use his own quirks - a lifelong sense of alienation, insecurity and inferiority - to draw the real feelings of his life and time. He brought a spare pen line, Jack Benny timing and a subtle sense of humor to taboo themes such as faith, intolerance, depression, loneliness, cruelty and despair. His characters were contemplative. They spoke with simplicity and force. They made smart observations about literature, art, classical music, theology, medicine, psychiatry...