Word: asylum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...18th century it was considered chic to spend an evening at the local lunatic asylum, laughing at the inmates. In the 20th century you can be asked to leave a dinner party for making a joke about the mentally disturbed or deficient. Perhaps the kindest thing to be said about our century is that it has managed to make this modest improvement in manners. Perhaps the kindest way to describe Crackers is to say that it is informed by the older sensibility. Louis Malle's remake of the unfunny 1958 Italian comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street has gained...
...left Peking for his first visit to the U.S. and talks with President Reagan this week, Zhao indicated a disarming willingness to help eliminate the obstacles that have stood in the way of closer relations between the two countries. Among the major difficulties: Washington's granting of political asylum to Chinese Tennis Player Hu Na; Peking's curtailment of cultural exchanges with the U.S.; a Chinese boycott of American agricultural products; and, most troublesome of all, U.S. arms sales to Taiwan...
Linda Ronstadt and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra: What's New (Asylum). Nine standards, done straight, by a pop queen collaborating with an old orchestra master. It must have seemed crazy, but it's a hit and a seemingly effortless tour de force...
...film vaults grant. On its face his is a comic turn, an impersonation of a homosexual impersonating a nanny to a grownup child. But his mincing rage for order has deeper roots; this small and isolated backstage world has offered him, until Sir started disrupting it, an asylum from the larger world he could never manage. Subtle observation and marvelously controlled invention mark Courtenay's work...
...Crab. Because of his light complexion, he was taken for a Cuban and carted off to Point Salines, where he cheerfully told tall tales to the interrogators. "There's like some supernatural thing happening here," Thompson says. "Can you imagine being an aging Negro in the insane asylum, and the U.S. military comes invading your country. They didn't even see guns here until a few years...