Word: spastic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...context of the "Sports Roundup," the gratuitous nature of this unjust and arbitrary attack was surely clear. The event was simply not newsworthy. Everyone who knows Bob realizes that he is a total spastic, and this certainly isn't the first time he has humiliated himself publicly...
...some good stuff is coming soon. Elvis Costello will be in Boston at the end of the month; the audience will be able to see him act spastic in person while he sings great songs. Unfortunately, by now all the tickets have gone away forever...
Williams follows his free-form chatter with enough wacked-out characters to people a spin-off of his spinoff. There is the French waiter at Chez Chuck, moving like a spastic Keystone Kop and offering customers such delicacies as "chicken lips with rice." Mr. Rogers, a takeoff on the dim-but-lovable kiddie show host, says: "Welcome to my neighborhood. Let's put Mr. Hamster in the microwave oven. O.K.? Pop goes the weasel!" Other bit players include Ernest Sincere, a redneck used-car dealer; Joey Stalin, a Russian stand-up comic; Little Sherman, a perverse little boy; and Walt...
...dream house would recapitulate a catalogue of status hardware: a room-to-room intercom, a "wet bar" in the "game room," an "in-ground" swimming pool and a "full" sprinkler system for the lawn, not merely a garden hose connected to one of those little spastic squirters. Ideally, all this should be found on "a couple of acres for privacy," though the fact that Squire Mim may end up a landed janitor tethered by weekend maintenance seems to be self-censored from the dream...
...spacey as Sissy, but then, who is? Charles Durning, who bears a startling resemblance to W.C. Fields, fulfills none of his potential to make the head doctor of the parapsychic institute a triumphant parody, but one William Finley as a commercial spiritualist is a hilariously spastic, buck-toothed jab at the Amazing Kreskin...