Word: carvey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing I remember most was a Saturday Night Live skit," Dukakis said at the event, which was part of the Institute of Politics' Summer-in-Boston program. "They had [Dana] Carvey doing this fabulous impression of Bush, and they pan to Jon Lovitz--playing me--and he says 'How could I be losing to this...
...thing I remember most was a Saturday Night Live skit," Dukakis said at the event, which was part of the Institute of Politics' Summer-in-Boston program. "They had [Dana] Carvey doing this fabulous impression of Bush, and they pan to Jon Lovitz--playing me--and he says 'How could I be losing to this...
...Dana Carvey says," Bush said, waving his index finger and exaggerating his own inflections, "Not gonna do it, wouldn't be prudent...
...into nationwide use in the 1970s--but this newer slang is different. It is supposed to confer upon its users an edge, sometimes a comedic but always a faintly combative edge. The era of Saturday Night Live that dished out Dennis Miller's "I'm outta here" and Dana Carvey's "Isn't that special?" fed a hunger for a renewable supply of ironic put-downs. But what may have started as a boomer/Xer shtick has now become a reflex common to all ages, from Bob Dole to Macaulay Culkin (who gave I don't think so its big push...
After winning its Tuesday-night time slot on its first outing, Carvey's show slipped to third place last week--though he still scored No. 1 with the coveted market of men ages 18 to 49. Many of them are in that key demographic group that likes to think of itself as ad resistant. But for these cynics with disposable income, advertisers have been devising below-the-radar approaches for years, come-ons that are harder to detect and resist than dancing tacos or Liz galumphing through The Nanny. These are all the rebel ads and anti...