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• Some German fechtbuch ("combat manuals", literally 'fight' or 'fence book') have sections dedicated to flamboyant techniques to be employed in such Klopffechten ("knockabout fighting"), which would be impractical in serious combat, and the Late Medieval German masters distinguish mock fights (fechten zu schimpf, 'rant fighting') and real combat (fechten zu ernst, 'earnest fighting').
• Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times, "what is important and delightful is that the spirit of knockabout farce, evolved in "The Belles of St.
• "Duck 'Bill' Platypus" by Kyle Rothweiler– an antic, knockabout humor strip about the eponymous character and his strange friends, set allegedly in Tasmania.
• Some critics held that Harris had vulgarised the pantomime by importing music-hall turns, particularly knockabout comedians, but the theatre historian Phyllis Hartnoll writes that he "had a feeling for the old harlequinade, providing for it lavish scenery and machinery and engaging excellent clowns and acrobats".
• Her performance as Miss Hopkins in Brideless Groom featured an acclaimed knockabout scene in which she repels suitor Shemp Howard—right through a door.
• The Radio Times wrote, "Alan Rudolph punctuates this straightforward tale with tiresome bar room brawls and noisy knockabout comic moments made bearable only by the occasional celebrity cameo".
• They performed as acrobats and knockabout comedians in revues for Albert de Courville, and in 1923 presented "Fantastic Frolics" on an all-British bill at the Palace Theatre on Broadway in New York.
• “Mr O’Casey is a master of knockabout in this very serious and honorable sense – that he discerns the principle of disintegration in even the most complacent solidities, and activates it to their explosion.
• " In July 1913, while in New Zealand, he married fellow performer Essie Jennings (Esther Patience Futcher) and together they developed a highly popular knockabout comedy sketch act, appearing for Fullers in sketches such as "The Actress and the Paperhanger.
• Like its predecessors, the film is not entirely successful in combining knockabout farce with more sophisticated lampooning: many of the gags are pressed too hard and there is a tendency to mistake facetiousness for pungency.
• The jokes contain plenty of corn, but the co-stars flog them hard and finally prove that unvarnished knockabout is no mean substitute for wit.
• She is a gaff rigged knockabout schooner, meaning she lacks a bowsprit; her headsails can be handled and furled from the deck.
• Tom Huddleston of Time Out London wrote, "Despite its admirably straight face, Season of the Witch is a silly romp through Pythonesque medieval cliché and knockabout Hammer horror with a dash of cut-price Tolkien chucked in to keep things moving".
• The film is an updated comedic adaptation of the Faust legend, borrowing elements from two stage féerie spectaculars: Les Pilules du diable (1839), a classic stage fantasy with knockabout comedy, and Les Quatre Cents Coups du diable (1905), a satirical update of Les Pilules du diable to which Méliès had contributed two sequences, one of which he incorporated into the present film.
• Loud and Quiets Sam Walton rated this release a 9 out of 10, characterizing it as "50 minutes of undeniably chopsy playing" that has "the emotive range of Holden’s compositions that lend the album its lasting appeal beyond knockabout jam-band fun".

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