Word: couth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This time, Edward Asner (Lou Grant) achieves the seemingly impossible by overplaying the loudmouth junkyard magnate Harry Brock, who is eight parts tyrant to one part teddy bear. Madeline Kahn (Oh Madeline) gets laughs as his fed-up mistress who sets out to acquire couth and literacy, but cute faces and cunning timing do not add up to a believable person. As the crusading journalist who sets out to trap Brock and woo away his woman, Daniel Hugh Kelly (Hardcastle and McCormick) seems lobotomized. Only Franklin Cover (The Jeffersons), as a sozzled, shopworn and sardonic Washington fixer, evokes a credible...
...banners, at least 35 feet long and in three colors, complete with spray-painted candy canes was touching. "Nick Wurf, you now seem couth, Merry Christmas from Duluth...
...daughter of a society photographer, Stewart is a woman with a mission, a crusader for couth. More than 700 department stores in 43 U.S. cities are franchised to conduct her etiquette training for children, and over the past 15 years, 160,000 clumsy charges have been coached in Marjabelle's method. The six one-hour sessions plus a seventh for graduation ceremonies, which cost up to $65, exist in spots as scattered as Little Rock, Ark., Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Tyler, Texas...