Word: dangerfields
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stripped to bare essentials. The voice, the timing, the jokes are your only weapons. Every second of uneasy silence is a little death. I launch into my monologue: "You've been reading about Kenneth Starr and grand-jury leaks. Well, I can't get one. I'm the Rodney Dangerfield of investigative reporters." A small laugh, less than a guffaw, more than a titter. But that's all I need. I'm launched...
...will be plain tickled that he didn't say "quack," because if he had, I'd jump in a puddle and do that too. Greenspan is the powerful chairman of the Federal Reserve, the nation's central bank, but until recently he was looking like the Rodney Dangerfield of the bull market. Three times in three months he implored investors to rethink their love affair with stocks, starting with his "irrational exuberance" speech in December. Yet stock prices danced defiantly higher atop torrents of cash flowing into mutual funds...
Even Ivy League champions feel like Rodney Dangerfield sometimes...
Judge Lance Ito allowed broadcasters to continue televising the proceedings, after Court TV apologized profusely for showing the face of an alternate juror yesterday. Ito grumbled later in the day that he gets no respect: he said he has been treated like the "Rodney Dangerfield of judges."The O.J. Files
...bitch, why don't we go up and take a shower together," there's offstage track laughter. When Mallory's mother tells her son that the only reason he was conceived was because his father mistook his own bed for Mallory's: laughter. The episode finally ends when Dangerfield's character is drowned in the family aquarium and her mother is tied to her bed and burned alive; it's funny. We see all too clearly the point Stone is attempting to make, and all too clearly how he fails, over and over and over again...