Word: wildering
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Like some of the wilder prophets of the Old Testament-like Hosea or Micah or perhaps Jeremiah-Eliezer Perelman was a visionary possessed by one irresistible idea. He even spoke once of the transcendent moment in which it came to him: "Suddenly, like lightning before my eyes, my thoughts flew across the Balkans . . . to Palestine, and I heard a . . voice calling to me: The revival of Israel and its language in the land of its forefathers...
Take Brown, for example. I don't know how it started, but the Bruins have taken it upon themselves to make Harvard she game. Brown athletes dig in all that much harder (especially with their elbows) against Harvard players. Brown fans go all that much wilder when good things are happening in games with Harvard, and Brown University officials have all but accepted this, slating the Harvard game for homecoming in years when the two teams meet in Providence...
...demonstration of his own superpowers. Sm3 takes mild-mannered Clark Kent back to his high school reunion and a rekindled romance with Lana Lang, played by Annette O'Toole, 30, (Cat People). O'Toole may be beautiful, but her co-star is hot, and as Director Billy Wilder said, when film makers are in doubt, "they all come up with the same answer: 'Get Richard Pryor...
...little picture. It certainly would have been better if Gilda Radner had not decided that for her next impersonation she would do a romantic ingénue. She is, in lantern-jaw looks and brash spirit, unsuited to playing such a role straight and apparently unwilling to parody it. Wilder seems so embarrassed for her that he tries to do the acting for both of them, with results that strain his normally funny interpretation of the coward who finds, if not grace, then shrewdness, under pressure...
...story is illogical and is without the kind of inventive startlements that make logic irrelevant to pleasure. Director Sidney Poitier is always cutting to some chase or other, all of which he handles with glum professionalism. But it is disheartening that a star team with the potential brilliance of Wilder and Radner had to take off on such an ungainly turkey...