Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comic overstatement, of course -- but the President was suddenly playing mysteriously coy. After hundreds if not thousands of repetitions that made "read my lips" the most memorable line of the 1988 campaign, Bush last week practically invited Congress to start pushing, with a hint that his lips might now frame something other than a flat no. The President asked congressional leaders to join Administration officials in a "summit" meeting to plan, at long last, a real whack at the runaway budget deficit. His spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, said Bush wanted the talks to start with "no preconditions" and proceed "unfettered with...
Theirs is a terrific comic duet, and writer Ken Friedman has backed them with a rich chorus of disapproval, including all the customers and salesmen also trapped in the showroom. Director Roger Donaldson, who has had his ups (No Way Out) and downs (Cocktail), is in his best voice here. It is the lower-depths snarl, angry and frustrated. It provides Cadillac Man with a steady bass line and makes it a rarity among recent films -- a comedy that is in touch with a recognizable reality...
...certainly warning signs. So is Alther's early summary of the passions that bind two women "Elke felt like a pile of nails being pulled to pieces by a magnet residing inside Clea." But such maladroit introductory passages could be dismissed as the ironic setup for a comic romp. Far more convincing instead to plunge to the heart of the novel for this glimpse of Clea's development: "She burned to take this lad to bed and teach him what she'd learned in a lifetime of licentiousness. Yet Dack was in love with a woman...
...maven Howard Stern. Was Stern hurt by this notoriety? Not at all: his show is now aired also in Philadelphia and Washington. Turn him on, and odds are you can't gulp down your morning coffee before you hear him say "penis." Last year, in the guise of his comic superhero Fartman, he placed a call to Iran and mercilessly berated the poor Shi'ite who picked up the phone. Fans of shock-jock jokery highly prize this rude dude. Trouble is, anyone scanning the radio dial can accidentally alight on his malice. You can't put a lockbox...
ARCHIE: TO RIVERDALE AND BACK AGAIN (NBC, May 6, 9 p.m. EDT). The comic-book teenagers, grown to thirtysomething age, come to TV in a two-hour movie. Archie is now a lawyer, Veronica a divorcee and Jughead a psychiatrist. Hmmm, maybe we liked them better as kids...