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...Have you ever had a how-long-can-you-go-without-laughing test?" he asks Dorothy, continuing his routine examination. "No," she says, eyes widening. Stubs takes a large windup clock from his bag and lets it drop to the floor. Dorothy giggles. "You only lasted about four seconds," he says, feigning disappointment...
...baseball was still fun. I remember falling off the mound in hysterics after our opponents' bench had collapsed in the middle of my windup. I remember my co-presidency of the two-man Kiko Garcia Fan Club in honor of the Baltimore utility infielder. I remember Ralph James slamming a towering shot far over the head of our leftfielder, a kid named Ron Mitchell. I cracked up as our coach pulled Ron off the field for jogging after the ball. "But Mr. Marshall, he could have run around the bases twice," Ron pleaded...
...nostalgia for at least some aspects of the bad old days. Yes, Leonid Brezhnev presided over an era of stagnation, but perhaps that was preferable to the nervous breakdown that the U.S.S.R. seems to be experiencing now. Moreover, when Brezhnev was on the Lenin mausoleum, waving like a rusty windup toy at the troops parading by, there was a predictability to Soviet behavior and a stability in international life that in retrospect are beginning to look good to some...
Earth Girls is a movie that takes its cues from sources as disparate as The Wizard of Oz and Chantal Akerman's avant-garde French musical The '80s. But everything blends neatly in the witty, zippy script; everybody has a good time. Davis, a living windup doll, plays Everygal to Goldblum as he exercises his ingratiating leer. Carrey (a randy mime) and Wayans (with his turbo terpsichore) give unearthly pleasure. So does Earth Girls, the tastiest thing to come out of a space program since Tang...
...reason to celebrate. Late last month two of their own, John Lasseter and William Reeves of Pixar, a computer manufacturer in San Rafael, Calif., won the first Academy Award given for a totally computer-generated film -- a short subject called Tin Toy that starred a rambunctious baby and a windup music man. Says Jaron Lanier, founder of VPL Research, a small Redwood City, Calif., company that makes the equipment used to help people enter a computer-generated world: "This is the year that this stuff is finally starting to work...