Word: slapsticker
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...been called for traveling and will be out of the game for a while," quipped Henry Kissinger as the Harlem Globetrotters made him an honorary member last week. The slapstick-basketball players presented the outgoing Secretary of State with a team uniform, playing shoes, warmup jacket and an autographed basketball. Standing on an eight-inch-high platform to measure up to his guests, Kissinger approvingly noted that his new uniform bore the number 1. Said Henry: "The numeral accords with my estimate of myself...
...gunmen sent out by the competition, his picture has a pleasant authenticity. There is also a nicely handled romantic triangle involving O'Neal, Burt Reynolds as a star and Newcomer Jane Hitchcock as a comically nearsighted actress. What goes wrong with the picture is an overreliance on slapstick, the nearly lost silent film technique, as a device to evoke the spirit of the time. Bogdanovich apparently does not quite trust his film's softer side to grab interest, especially in the early going...
...Slapstick, Vonnegut...
...Sleeping Murder, Christie (1 last week) 2-Trinity, Uris (2) 3-Storm Warning, Higgins (3) 4-Touch Not the Cat, Stewart (4) 5-Blue Skies, No Candy, Greene (5) 6-Raise the Titanic!, Cussler (7) 7-Slapstick, Vonnegut (6) 8-The Users, Haber (8) 9-Ceremony of the Innocent, Caldwell (10) 10-Dolores, Susann...
...Slapstick, Vonnegut...