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And when the previous owners joke "we're taking it with us!", you have ask, "are they really just joking"... Richard Pryor, who has now left us, should be so proud of this movie, his comedy is rare and so well timed.
This surprisingly primitive 'streamliner' comedy from the Roach Studios -- with the collapse of the comedy short subject market in the mid-thirties, Hal Roach decided to go into feature production, first with films like the TOPPER series and later with second features that timed in at less than an hour -- contains all the standard cheap comedy motifs, including a Murphy Bed -- and runs through them in a rather mechanical fashion as made-it-from-scratch taxi fleet owners William Bendix and Joe Sawyer get tangled up with a girl who tries to kill herself and declares herself their responsibility.
But the "birth" scene, dripping not just with melted jello but with shallow, pointless undercurrents of mother and child and homo-eroticism, was made more ridiculous with comically timed editing.
The change of scenes are bad timed, and the focus in some of the scenes are also unbelievable poor.
Guy Noir was flat and lifeless (and I like Kevin Klein), the jokes were slow and poorly timed, there were no serials, the letters segment was extremely short, there was no "sermon".
I find the originality of the show refreshing and the situations and spoofs are genuinely funny (Thornton Reed's lack of emotion and terribly timed cues are a prime example).
All time schedules timed to the minute of the armored car.
By the time we entered the lobby, with that wonderful three and a half minute (I timed it!)
Altogether, if the series was released in around 1991-92 with the books most promoted then it would have been more understandable and rightly timed but still probably would have sucked the same.
The references it makes are side-splitting and the Bugs Bunny and Shining examples stand out as two that are remarkably timed.
To have made this said reconstruction possible the two trains would have needed to be timed to the second, an event I find extremely implausible.
No one should be surprised if the real final chapter in the globalization story of the 1990s is a crash on Wall Street, well timed to the 70th anniversary of the drama of 1929.
The breakthrough came in late 1978, and was carefully timed by Carter to follow the mid-term congressional elections.
With America’s saving shortfall now worsening in the aftermath of last year’s poorly timed tax cuts, the US will only become more reliant on surplus savers like China to fill the void.
Macron had timed his speech to influence the post-election coalition negotiations there, with the hope that Merkel would use her fourth and likely final term to burnish her legacy by enacting bold European reforms.
Hamas timed these revelations with the disengagement to create the impression that its intensifying military strategy had prevailed.
In controlled studies, Mullainathan and Shafir asked Princeton University students to play a timed computer game in which they were given the opportunity to “borrow” extra seconds, even though doing so would mean forfeiting double the number of seconds from their overall time.
Worse yet, two of the cases were timed to humiliate Chen - one on the eve of his assumption of the Democratic Progressive Party chairmanship, the other before his stopover in New York while on a state visit to Central America.
A report by Mueller on Trump’s attempts to obstruct the investigation is expected soon – timed to fall well ahead of the US midterm elections in November.
More than 300 million Chinese saw the film after its late-February release, which was timed to coincide with the annual meeting of China’s National People’s Congress in early March.
A consumption-tax hike should be timed in such a way that it does not suffocate the economic recovery that Abe’s bold economic program, dubbed “Abenomics,” is facilitating.
And yet, while the consumption-tax increase is not ideally timed, I am not entirely pessimistic about its impact.
But the political process may generate poorly timed or ineffective responses – focused on transfers rather than purchases, infra-marginal tax rebates, and spending that fails cost-benefit tests – that do little good in the short run and cause substantial harm later.
Second, because the stimulus was poorly timed, the US economy is now overheating, and inflation is rising above target.
He likes the current system’s strong presidential orientation, particularly since the presidential term was reduced from seven years to five, and is now closely timed to the legislative election cycle.
As we made our precisely timed connections with ease, I wondered why so many other Western governments have deemed the public sector to be incapable of running an efficient railway system.
If the Kim regime timed the missile launch to have a direct impact on elections in nearby Japan and South Korea, it may have succeeded merely in boosting support for defense-oriented conservative parties.
Rafsanjani was at least partly hostage to hardline opponents keen to sabotage his foreign-policy initiatives with precisely timed acts of terror in France, Germany, and Argentina.
India has been doing it, with great success, for a decade, timed to recall the return to India of the most famous Indian expatriate of them all, Mahatma Gandhi, who alighted from his South African ship in Bombay on January 9, 1915.
Finally, firms with a higher CEO pay slice are more likely to provide their CEO with option grants that turn out to be opportunistically timed.
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