Word: comically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard community will get a glimpse of comedian Jay Leno's anvil-shaped jaw on Wednesday when the stand-up comic accepts the Harvard Lampoon's Elmer award...
Even though the Lampoon rearranged its scheduleto get Leno, one member of the organization, whichirregularly publishes a humor magazine, said thatthe comic was not their first choice...
...Sarah seeks her karma in the Sunbelt, she has reason to resent "my old-fashioned Puritan conscience." But Updike's use of such references should not be taken too somberly; the stern, rock-ribbed moral universe of The Scarlet Letter serves here as a subtle counterpoint to a comic vision of anything-goes ethics in mid-1980s America...
...with it in black and white, with more charming indirection and a lot less self-pity than the new crowd manages. Part of the problem with She's Having a Baby is the lack of old-fashioned grace in its leading performances. Bacon has yet to mature as a comic actor; he is still just a bouncing boy. It is impossible to take his grownup ambitions, therefore the subject of the movie, seriously enough to laugh at very much. McGovern, by contrast, is all pouts and whines; one could not blame her spouse if he strayed for real instead...
...Francisco-born comic who uses the motto "700 sailors can't be wrong," has performed in 33 states and five Canadian provinces to date. Recently Snow accepted a position as one of the "comic commentators" for the 1988 Winter Olympics...