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...structural debt to Red River, but its spin is strictly Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel: sharply turned observations on contemporary angst blended with agreeable sentiments by Parenthood's writers. O.K., it would be nice if this film paused to sniff the locoweed, but director Ron Underwood yippee-ki-yos the yuppies quite smartly along a pretty fresh trail...
...starters, the ex-Mayor isn't one of the most eloquent guys around. One Temple University communications professor claims that Rizzo "murders the English language." Rizzo punctuates his show with lots of South Philly "Yos," and the 68-year-old has little problem using his loud voice to over-power callers and ram his points home. Often he sounds like he'd silence his critics with a night stick if he had the chance...
...first worked, but a military communications satellite launched Saturday suffered an apparent power failure and drifted uselessly in space. The astronauts are also expected to spend time toying around. To demonstrate the laws of physics to schoolchildren, they will be videotaped playing with such dime-store goodies as yo-yos, spinning tops, a Slinky and a windup mouse...
Santa, in fact, is all over the Locks' shop. There are 10-inch figures of Santa holding a tennis racquet, or slouching over canes. There are Santa yo-yos and candles in the shape of the big red gift-giver. There are Santa hats and Santa pictures, Santa frisbees and Santa mugs and Santa music boxes...
...physician sits in an exclusive Manhattan club, spinning a long-ago yarn. He recalls the terror he once saw on the face of an ambulance driver, "His eyes widening until it seemed they must slip from their orbits and simply dangle from their optic nerves like grotesque seeing yo-yos...