Word: suckering
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...expanding U.S., bringing the threat of law and competition from corporations and other opportunists. When he sees workers putting up telegraph poles, what is progress to others is an encroachment on his action. "By all means, let's plant poles all across the country!" he shouts. "Festoon the c___sucker with wires to hurry the sorry word and blinker our judgments! Ain't the state of things sorry enough? Don't we already face enough f____in' imponderables...
Maybe not. The story has a sucker punch, which reveals both the importance of family and the ways loyalty can trump official morality. Like Frankie, the film is a tough creature with a heart. Like Eastwood, it's a relic that dazzles you with its footwork, daring and class. --By Richard Corliss...
...filling the stage. And it's not just the piano player and the four dancers who accompany him. Humphries has built an entire show out of that old comedy-club staple of bantering with the audience. But the earnestly solicitous singsong with which Dame Edna delivers her well-practiced sucker punches ("I love the outfit you've chosen." Beat. "Is it reversible?") robs them of any meanness or condescension. Humphries is one comic who has also done the work of a playwright: he has created a character who totally envelops us in his--her--world. Go in skeptical; come...
...that the actual 50-year-old standards on the album, like Billy Myles’ jazzy “My Love Is,” fit in very snugly. That track is pure velvet, an upright-bass-supported masterpiece that channels pure melancholy joy. I’m a sucker for good lyrics, and Myles’ words are simple, desperate and content all at the same time. When Golightly croons perfect lines like “My love is a deep blue sea / So deep that I’ll never be free...
...that approach,” Bush said, according to Schroer. “The people I know back in Texas, I can imagine them out in their backyards seeing one of those mobile homes on a blimp, and they would take out their twelve gauge shotgun and blow that sucker clear...