Word: wildered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some Like It Hot Billy Wilder`s hilarious force about a pair of musical Chicago ne'er-de-wells who get caught in the crossfire of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Florida with a girls' band. With Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in drag, and Marilya Monroe...
Uganda's President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin has established himself before the world as an ignorant, cruel and megalomaniacal despot. Last week, as his pronouncements grew wilder and wilder, East Africans were beginning to wonder whether Amin was not merely out of his depth in the job, but out of his mind as well. Items...
...Congress a bill that would force advertisers to send to any consumer who asks for it the same documentation substantiating ad claims that they have submitted to the FTC. Although bewilderment so far is the main result of the FTC program. such efforts may yet curb admen's wilder flights of fancy...
Many of the ideas sound good on paper: in "What happens during ejaculation?" Woody plays a nervous sperm; in "What is sodomy?" Gene Wilder appears as a nice Jewish doctor who lusts after a sheep. The laughs, though, remain mostly in the silliness and audacity of the notions themselves. The skits wind down rather than take off from the ideas...
...questionable virtue. What the play point-blank suggests to the audience, in the moral pronounced before the final curtain, is that we should all free ourselves for some adventure in life. And with the small-town good sense that is so embarassing but so affecting in Our Town. Thornton Wilder recommends just enough excitement to keep us from longing unhappily when we are sitting quietly at home...