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Word: comical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relationship that develops between Frankie and Ulysses, her robot dreamboat, is pleasant but conventionally screwball. This seems rather dismaying, considering that Director Seidelman showed such a fresh eye and so much wayward comic originality in 1985's Desperately Seeking Susan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Making Mr. Right | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...surely earned a place in the Spanish theatrical canon analogous to that of Romeo and Juliet in the English cannon. Like Romeo and Juliet, Garcia Lorca's version of the classic theme of star-crossed lovers and feuding families is a poetic tragedy, rich in symbolic imagery and comic in scope...

Author: By Gary L. Susmam, | Title: Blood Wedding | 4/11/1987 | See Source »

...rapid-fire speech, expressive voice and fantastic facial expressions successfully convey his incredulity at the world around him. And the interplay among Gray's script, five short clips from The Killing Fields, and Laurie Anderson's music make the film a wonderful journey through the mind of a comic who is horrified by his world. The bombing of Cambodia is a stark example of what is wrong with his country, but his sarcastic self-deprecations and caricatures of others express his dismay at his society in general...

Author: By Jennifer M. Oconnor, | Title: Diving off the Deep End | 4/11/1987 | See Source »

...nationality known comic Sinbad, who has appeared on Star Search and The Cosby Show, will host the competition. A panel of celebrities, including Eric Bloom, lead singer of the Blue Oyster Cult, will judge the four college bands...

Author: By James H. Colopy, | Title: Rhythm Method to Go To Battle of Bands Final | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

...oversaw a two-mile-long line of students attempting to fashion the world's largest sand castle. "But it's keeping them out of trouble." One sign of the times: the fear of AIDS injected a note of caution to the usual sex-charged atmosphere of spring break. Comic Jay Leno drew cheers by noting that it was "National Condom Week," and the island's lone druggist, Ed Walsh, reported a brisk business in the ten brands he stocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Spring Break at South Padre | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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