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...week's end only 4½ games separated the top four pennant contenders, the league lead had changed hands twice, and it seemed only natural when it finally fell into the possession of the Pittsburgh Pirates-the zaniest team in baseball...
Before an army of Arabs rides to the rescue by horse and hydrofoil, Modesty unreels a few reasonably sturdy gags in the midst of its chichi nonsense. The zaniest occurs early on when Bogarde's henchmen torture Monica with a piece of mobile sculpture. In a movie so given to self-conscious giggles, even the fine art of manhandling takes a peculiar turn...
Bright, fresh, satirical and full of surprises, She is the result of a month-long collaboration by three of the zaniest sculptors anywhere around: Switzerland's Jean Tinguely, a maker of mad machines; Niki de Saint-Phalle, his American-born friend, famed for her outsized Nana dolls; and Sweden's Per Olof Ultvedt. The three started out full of enthusiasm, which never slackened for a second. Says Tinguely": "It's a Noah's ark, Gulliver's Travels, the tower of Babel. It's like being in an airplane, a factory, a church. Everything...
Founded in the gold-rush days of 1849, the California court seemed destined to become the nation's zaniest tribunal. Justice David C. Terry (1855-59), for example, was a ferocious Mississippian who began honing his bowie knife on assorted victims as a 13-year-old soldier in the Texas War of Independence. After getting elected to the California court on the Know-Nothing ticket, Terry was jailed and convicted for stabbing a San Francisco vigilante. Not only was Terry freed, he became chief justice in 1857 and promptly killed U.S. Senator David C. Broderick in California...
...performance that nails down her reputation as a girl worth singing about, Actress Fonda does every preposterous thing demanded of her with a giddy sincerity that is at once beguiling, poignant and hilarious. Wearing widow's weeds over her six-guns, she romps through one of the zaniest train robberies ever filmed, a throwback to Pearl White's perilous heyday. Putting the final touches on a virginal white frock to wear at her own hanging, she somehow suggests that Alice in Wonderland has fallen among blackguards and rather enjoys it. Happily, Cat Ballon makes the enjoyment epidemic...