Word: spoiling
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...Bauer says, "There's nothing there that's going to spoil...
...different. In Oedipus Wrecks, his efficiency is that of the perfectly practiced anecdotalist, not wasting a moment on irrelevant detail, yet knowing when to linger over the important ones. In this brisk vignette, Allen himself plays Sheldon, victim of a kind of transcendental Jewish-mother joke. It would spoil the fun to say how he transforms a stock figure, a yammering, smothering mom (Mae Questel, who is splendid), from a private torment into a public menace, but it is literally magical to behold...
Barbara may spoil the dog, but she criticizes George for not disciplining the kids enough. She still posts the rules of conduct on the doors at Kennebunkport in case anyone has forgotten them. The kids agree that their mother ruled the court of common pleas while George rode the circuits and was brought in only for major infractions...
...atmosphere -- might already be under way. Parched by the lack of rain, the Western forests of the U.S., including Yellowstone National Park, went up in flames, also igniting a bitter conservationist controversy. And on many of the country's beaches, garbage, raw sewage and medical wastes washed up to spoil the fun of bathers and confront them personally with the growing despoliation of the oceans...
...more would spoil the surprise. Suffice it to say that this production offers many visual treats, from outstandingly silly dances to the Mikado's entrance, which can only be described as sidesplitting in its humorous effect...