Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marker eyebrows, oversize cigar. Yet few TV entertainers were a more intriguing set of contradictions than Ernie Kovacs. A boisterous cutup who relished tacky props and low-down slapstick, yet a closet highbrow who orchestrated comedy to Bartok and Beethoven. A talk-show pioneer, yet the creator of a classic half an hour that included not a single line of dialogue. A TV "star" who never had a network series that lasted more than two seasons, yet who influenced video comedy for the next two decades, from Laugh-In to David Letterman...
...Organza is out, out, out," she says. "But tulle touches are coming back." Priscilla Kidder believes, "The girls went into ivory tones when the dresses their mothers had put away turned ivory from age. But wedding gowns themselves haven't changed. The most popular is still the very full, classic gown of stiff silk-satin...
...story about people who try to be ruthless, but turn out to have soft spots and warm hearts after all. There are rich people who are bad, poor people who are exploited--i.e. good--dumb cops, dumb blondes, dumb dogs and a lot of other classic on-screen stereotypes which for some reason make audiences laugh as if they haven't seen this movie every summer since they sneaked into their first R-rated movie...
Sound like fun viewing? It is. The scene when the high schoolers' taxi pulls up next to Mr. Bueller's is an absolute classic...
...whether the thin patty made famous by fast-food chains or the thicker chopped-steak version, epitomized by the specimen at Acorn on Oak, a bar and grill in Chicago. Most familiar among workaday sandwiches are the coffee-shop regulars: bacon, lettuce and tomato, tuna or egg salad, the classic combo of ham and Swiss cheese, grilled cheese and bacon and the lavish club, a three-slice pileup with two "decks" of filling that at its purest includes sliced chicken, bacon, tomato and lettuce. Less orthodox but currently more fashionable in New York City is the $22 club sandwich...