Word: spasticated
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...outcome of Brick's "pure and true" friendship with his now-dead football pal Skipper, a relationship that was homosexual on one side and, at least latently, on the other. Forced to face truth, Brick turns the tables and reveals that what Big Daddy thinks is a spastic colon is actually a metastasizing malignancy...
...dramatic setting is a men's room outfitted with the shabbiest imaginable toilet facilities, including two mottled urinals. The inmates, for that is how they view themselves, use this room to hide out from the larger premises of what they call "the spastic club...
...sulky Bob Dylan (Christopher Guest), lurking offstage like Achilles in his tent, comes bounding before the spotlight when fistfuls of greenbacks are offered. The dynamic, petite and greatly gifted Alice Playten makes a spastic dithyramb of her takeoff on Mick Jagger. The mimicking of motorcycle addicts and musicians so stoned that they hold onto their mike stands as if they were swaying lampposts is all well-etched commentary, held together by an endearingly bumbling announcer (John Belushi) who sometimes cannot read the slips in his hand...
Originally a play that had a good run in both London and Manhattan, Joe Egg was written by Peter Nichols, himself the father of a spastic child. Boisterous and harrowing, it is a macabre tour de force. But Nichols' adaptation for the screen is stubbornly stagebound, and the young Hungarian director Peter Medak does nothing to liberate it. The film seems forced and artificial, and the bilious lighting makes it look as if it had been staged inside a plastic showcase...
...worst ones were legendary. One year a particularly hopeless digger was told to find the edge of a foundation but instead cut about three feet further into the boundary bank than necessary, causing the field house above him to collapse. Some sites gave awards to the most spastic digger in honor of one infamous digger whose ineptitude was legion...