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"Check It Out," which recently concluded its third season, has an editing style that's deliberately clumsy and is characterized by the jumpy, wrinkled-tape wobble of an overused videocassette.
"Krapp's Last Tape" demands a better staging than the clumsy one provided by Robman.
Using the clumsy, now blessedly defunct method of VCR-to-VCR editing — record tape from one machine to the other, stop, rewind, repeat — he learned the basics of cinematic rhythm and narrative.
And then there has been a series of setbacks: the lousy weather, a faulty torch lighting during the opening ceremonies, the organizers' clumsy handling of ticket refunds, and NBC's much-lamented tape-delay broadcasts.
But "Murder to Excellence," a medley of two songs pointlessly taped together, takes on the topic and sounds like a clumsy campfire singalong (thank producer Swizz Beatz, who fails not once but twice on the same album) complete with a set of free-floating murder statistics that never get tied to a story.
Then he pulls the papery tape with his teeth and gets an end around the dressing, jams the roll between his knees, makes a clumsy bandage.
Too clumsy?
Just clumsy.
Clumsy, yes!
Ha! Clumsy.
Clumsy muskrats?
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