Word: carline
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason the Governors did not spend more time addressing the Reagan budget, noted Tennessee's Republican Governor, Lamar Alexander, "is that none of us expects the President's budget to pass." After meeting with the President, Democratic Governor John Carlin of Kansas reported that Reagan showed he had not lost touch with reality, admitting he did not expect his New Federalism to pass both the House and Senate this year either. Thus the debate was taking place in something of avoid. Observed Carlin: "When I talk to the Kansas farmer or small businessman, there...
...what do these comics do? Start by saying what they do not do. They do not spin whimsical stories of urban childhoods, like Bill Cosby and George Carlin. They do not deal in analysis and self-hatred, like Woody Allen and Rodney Dangerfield. They do not refract their rage in race-and-reefer jokes, like Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor. They do not tell topical or political jokes, like Johnny Carson. Indeed, they rarely tell jokes or stories at all. They do not talk about their mothers, their wives, their egos. Their past is a mystery; their presence is perplexing...
From a generation that usually identifies with the humor of a George Carlin, Gabe Kaplin or Richard Pryor, Youngman extracts laughs without reference to drugs or four-letter words...
Ruddy-hued Stormy Loftus (Thomas A. Carlin) is a bustling contractor flush with building schemes. His wife Jan (Charlotte Moore) is an alabaster-pale monument to worthy causes. Stormy's best friend, Jess White (James Greene), sells wallpaper, but his wallet is bare thanks to six children, whom his wife Myra (Pauline Flanagan) counts as the blessed bounty of God. Ruggedly handsome Richard Halvey (David Canary), whose wife Trina (Swoosie Kurtz) dresses and acts half her age, has a gnawing lust in his loins for Jan Loftus...
...individualist named Archer (Mick Ford), whose rebelliousness is of a highly personal sort. He is a vegetarian and an atheist whose insistence on special treatment throws sand into the system, but not the monkey wrench that would bring it to a halt. There is also a hard case named Carlin (Ray Winstone), whose rise from victim to "Daddy" (the inmate who rules over his section) provides the plot with such movement as it has. There is an implication that Carlin's rule may be slightly more humane than that of the Daddy he has literally beaten...