Word: tasteless
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...gimmicky platonic Love Story between two buddy-buddy freak types on the fringes of Manhattan society. Superlatively acted by Jon Voight as a frustrated lexas stud and Dustin Hoffman as the down-on-his-luck cripple he joins forces with. Also, Carl Reiner's Where's Poppa, a tasteless but hilarious comedy of mother hate, starring George Segal and Ruth Gordon. CINEMA 733. Wednesday and Thursday. Call...
...book was The Pale Horse, a vintage Christie whodunit (1961) in which the villain plots to kill some factory workers with thallium, a tasteless, soluble and highly toxic substance that had never before been used on humans as a poison in Britain. The "fellow" was Graham Frederick Young, 24, who did precisely what Dame Agatha predicted could be done. Last month he was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering two of his fellow workers at a small photographic-equipment factory in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, by dosing their tea and coffee with thallium...
...fantasies, stands by while a bank teller tries to decipher his scrawl: "I have a gub." The holdup man insists that the word is "gun"; the teller consults higher authorities, thereby spiking the heist. Even Allen's penmanship, it turns out, is masochistic. Occasionally there was a flat, tasteless line, but audiences howled, and the film made money. Allen took...
...Elvis is his audience, which in the '50s was almost exclusively the under-20s. He has kept his original fans-and added their children and parents. Even Rolling Stone, the rock bible, has praised him, though it deplores some of his more saccharine songs, schlocky arrangements and "the tasteless wrapping of Cool Whip" that frequently obscures...
...high-handed and tasteless description of actor Bill Fuller as "short, fat, and funny-looking" (Crimson, May 8), Richard Bowker omits one crucial fact: Fuller also holds a black belt in karate. Andrew J. Heyward...