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Word: unsubtlest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1954-1954
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Against these obstacles Phil Silvers pits his jovial buffoonery. But his brash, rapid-fire humor entertains only in spurts, and then in the unsubtlest of ways. His best scene comes late in the picture, as he parodies a tenor at the burlesque while half-clad maidens stumble around in the background. No one else has much of a part, although some of vaudeville's oldest stand-bys have landed jobs in the supporting cast...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: Top Banana | 4/1/1954 | See Source »

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