Word: slapstick
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...relations as friendly as they are now, a play whose premise rests on stereotypical presentations of Communism and Communists does not come across as particularly topical. It is perhaps for this reason that directors Elliot Thomson and Maurie, Samuels decided to develop Don't Drink the Water as a slapstick comedy...