Word: burnette
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conspicuous consumption - a bizarrely anachronistic target in the '80s, when every Jane Doe scrutinizes her biodegradable cereal box to make sure it has enough vitamins and minerals. So the film's first half mines the comfy-cozy, utterly on-pitch humor of an old Carol Burnett skit. In the happy California suburb of Tasty Meadows, every room is decorated in the pastels of progressive kindergartens, and the residents' chief concern is ring around the collar. In this cheerfully sterile atmosphere, where brains are not only washed but presoaked, Tomlin's goofy, blissed-out smile serves...
...Since Jeffrey Bloom served as both director and author, blame is easy to place. For instance, a bag lady watches over the beach. She is an overblown caricature (with so much paraphenalia that she needs a huge shopping cart, and looking about as crazy as the washer-woman Carol Burnett did at the end of her shows), but with no real purpose. She makes mysterious soothsayings, but remains aloof during times of crisis. But is she a parody of a God-figure, or simply an underdeveloped character...
...minutes all season, but he had his eyes fixed confidently on the basket when he shot up out of a crowd to hit the bucket that put Harvard on top for good against Columbia. A minute earlier, with the score tied at 57, Taylor had fouled the Lions' Darren Burnett, but the burly point guard missed his second free throw, giving Taylor a chance to make up for his mistake...
After Dixon blew an opportunity with 11 seconds left to put the game away at the foul line, Burnett managed to muscle an eight-footer past Taylor, but the ball bounced off the back of the rim, and Crimson forward Joe Carrabino was fouled in the ensuing tussel for the rebound. Capping a game-high 20-point performance, the cool freshman tossed in his freebies, leaving the Lions with one second of official time to consider what had happened to the ten-point lead they had held' midway through the second half...
COLUMBIA (4-10). Gordon 3 3-3 9; Hawkins 4 0-1 8; Burnett 2 4-5 8; Mahoney 9 0-0 18; Fields 0 0-0 0; Best 1 0-0 2; Boyle 2 0-1 4; Outlaw 2 1-2 5; Clarke 2 0-0 4. TEAM 25-50 8-12 58, 33 rebounds. HARVARD (8-4). Fleming 7 5-6 19; Harris 2 0-0 4; Carrabino 8 4-6 20; Mannix 3 0-0 6; Dixon 1 0-1 2; Taylor 2 0-1 4; Trout 1 4-6 6; McCabe 0 0-0 0. TEAM...