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...their hand stamped at the turnstile, walk a few yards to the nearest hotel bar and drown their rancor there. The Pinocchio and Star Tours rides, among others, provide French dialogue, but visitors who have no English will miss the verbal nuances that lend the park its impish wit...
After all, who could fail to be inspired by lines like "If you don't try, you can't fail" or "Your thoughts can't soar if you think like a turkey." Certainly it is not possible to resist the wit behind such zingers as "apartment hunting...scouring for a pad" or "Shakespeare ode much to publishers," And even the greatest literature cannot match such insights into the humanity as "Laughter is the shock absorber of life's blows" or "No one is a failure who is enjoying life...
...form and narrative. "I am very, very strict structurally," he says. "You can break any rule you want, but you have to have a clue about what the rules are." Morris makes up full-bodied dances that celebrate the pure joy of movement, usually spiked with an irreverent wit. "The knee-jerk response is to assume that a lot of what I do is parody or sarcastic when it actually isn't," he observes. "I'm interested in the story and really good dancing. But you know, you can't force people to get that...
...title? One can't claim too much for his cups, which is a relief in a culture that tends to claim far too much for its paintings, but the whole show in Minneapolis is infused with an educated sense of style that consorts finely with the craftsmanship and laconic wit. Price's sensibility does not so much come out of Pop as emerge, on its own terms, from the same ground, becoming both demotic and superrefined. As the Faberge of Funk, he has no rivals...
...Harrelson) intrudes into this essentially black world with intent to hustle (gambling on these pickup games is heavy). Maybe WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP, but in all other respects he's a fully qualified player -- except possibly in the brains department. But smart Sidney Deane (Wesley Snipes) has enough wit for both men, and after initial edginess they form a winning (and profitable) two-on-two team in a movie that is not as winning as it should be. Writer-director Ron Shelton covers the action excitingly, but his plot is strictly a two-handed set shot. He did much...