Word: throttlebottoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...studio could draw on to play the ancient, sweet and wise. This picture has two of the best--Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi. Moore especially, hesitant, stuttering and practically irresistible had already cleared a career as one of Broadway's great musical comedy stars (he was the original Alexander Throttlebottom in Of Thee I Sing) when he made this movie and his appeal is immediately self-evident. The next night at the Welles, if you're not dehydrated, you can find Wuthering Heights. I took a course last year on the Novel and the Cinema, one of those hybrid classes...
...German scientist, critic and aphorist, whose name apparently strikes Carelman as inherently grotesque, like Major Major, P.D.Q. Bach or the presidential ticket of Wintergreen and Throttlebottom...
...Viet Nam), Goldwaterite, and finally, an improbable shepherd of nearly all the major civil rights legislation of the '60s. Toward the end of his life-he died in 1969-it began to seem that Dirksen's most interesting achievement was himself: a rumpled travesty of Throttlebottom, Pekin, Ill., Polonius wreathed in consciously self-mocking fustian, a man at once shamelessly sentimental and uncommonly shrewd...