Word: slapsticker
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...Saturday Night Live," a favorite satire show for many, provided more than slapstick comedy that night. Long known for its ability to attract popular musical guests, SNL prompted high ratings by snagging O'Connor. The studio audience and the millions of viewers who watched from their living rooms got much more than they bargained...
...message's sometimes strident tone is lightened by moments of strange and occasionally pointless humor or slapstick, in addition to some very funny lines. Nonetheless, the 2 1/2 hour play would be less tiring to watch if the actors cut down on some of the shouting and bouncing around, especially in the first...
...vulnerability is soon masked by another bigoted tirade, never to reappear. More of this kind of complexity could give the play depth and direction when the message and the pointless slapstick begin to get stale...
...miss, near-slapstick stories about one "Sam Slade," a private investigator who eventually sells out to the worldwide network of conspirators defending The Canon. (One of the conspirators is Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, who orders her bodyguard "Malloy" to throw an over-inquisitive Slade out of the New York Harvard Club.) Most, however, are serious essays--from the lucid "Integrating the American Mind" to the wandering "Trading on the Margin...
Wilder's film definitely has its bizarre moments which reveal its unsteady identity. In other words, it doesn't quite know what it wants to be, whether a slapstick comedy, classic romance or comment on the modern industrial...