Word: slapsticking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...film is inspired, from the hilarious credit sequence to Nielsen's first scene, in which he foils an anti-American plot by some of America's most notorious enemies such as Muammar Khaddafi and Idi Amin. The attempted killing of Nielsen's partner (O.J. Simpson) is a slapstick tour-de-force...
Zucker, who cites the Marx Brothers as a major inspiration for the team's trademark humor, a combination of irreverent spoof and slapstick, contends that their brand of film satire requires a particular frame of mind and involves a certain amount of risk. The blockbuster reception of Airplane! was followed up by the disaster of Top Secret. When the latter film is mentioned, both Weiss and Zucker flinch. As Zucker says, "It isn't like drama where you can say `You simply didn't get the "heavyosity" we were aiming for.'" In comedy, the sound (or lack) of laughter...
...final rounds, the costuming is ingenious. Houston's Inns 'n Outts strut onstage painted up as the four gray visages of Mount Rushmore. A Virginia quartet appears as clowns. Florida's Sidekicks prance on as doctors and plumbers. But the twelve judges are looking for more than slapstick. "Too much theatrics detract from sound quality," sniffs...
...cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159; integral, radical, u, dv; slapstick, slide rule, MIT."--The school cheer for MIT last Saturday during its first varsity football game in 87 years...