Word: badly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jimmy Smith, described by another comedian as "a large Kentucky Fried Chicken of a man", was the evening's sole professional stand-up comic. "He was hilarious," said Maye I. Chen '92. Fellow Freshman Rebecca D. Knowles agreed. "He could make a bad joke and completely resurrect it, getting everyone to laugh...
...Last year, in the first year torts class, which I was teaching for the first time in a while, there was some bad chemistry that I think I bear substantial responsibility for. There were a a few students who thought I was overbearing and were being turned off. That shows I'm not doing my job. But, again, I think my record on the whole has been good...
...also lacks the constant background patter of jokes that kept Airplane! going. There is a good deal of homophobic nastiness--the bad guy is gay, of course--and the occasional bathroom humor makes for some of the film's least appealing moments. Naked Gun's endless gags become more and more tedious, and the movie starts to fall apart during an incredibly long baseball sequence near the end. The threadbare plot, flimsy as it is, actually manages to bog the film down...
...Cowboys' precipitous fall from the ranks of the league's elite is more than the story of a good team gone bad. It is the story of a myth that died...
While teams like the Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers were considered the bad guys, the Cowboys were clean cut, law-abiding and patriotic...