Word: comical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN HARRY MET SALLY . . . it was loathe at first sight. But he (Billy Crystal) learned to accept her (Meg Ryan) as a friend, with almost no romantic strings attached. The "almost" makes for a witty sexual tension in Rob Reiner's comic valentine to love, friendship, Manhattan and Woody Allen...
Like my first-year rooming group in Holworthy 9, for example. We were a strange bunch, with very little in common: a boisterous Jewish comic from New Jersey, an Italian football player, a WASPy athlete from Massachusetts and an Irish thug from Brooklyn...
...towels and ice cubes, but also games, books, diapers and the use of a Nintendo video game. A pediatrician is on call round the clock. "Our business has doubled," says general manager Stan Bromley, who began emphasizing service to children about two years ago. "We gave away 1,200 comic books in 1988 -- more than we sell orders of caviar...
...This is comic-book psychology in its highest form, and it seems pretty silly in a two-hour-plus movie. The idea of a twisted, tortured superhero who feels driven by his own past to fight crime is perfectly fine. And the idea of a deranged psychotic trickster who mirrors the the hero's split personality is equally intriguing...
...doesn't learn anything or gain any control over himself. He simply defeats this film's embodiment of evil. So what if Batman and the Joker are complementary psychotics? Why the Joker, and not Darth Vader or Lex Luthor? In the end, Batman is nothing more than a clever comic-book idea that just doesn't go anywhere...