Word: eared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman show Appearing Nitely. Both that comic montage and The Search for Signs were written and directed by Jane Wagner, who also collaborated with Tomlin on three Grammy-nominated record albums, four Emmy-honored TV specials and the film The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Wagner has developed a shrewd ear for Tomlin's inflections and an uncluttered directing style that takes full advantage of the star's arms- outflung exuberance and her adroitness at shifting from character to character, place to place, reality to fantasy and back. Here Tomlin plays a baker's dozen of ill-assorted characters, from an uncommonly...
...spends her days sitting on the front stoop of her inner-city apartment house, gabbing about the things real people talk about, like when the garbage will be picked up and why the landlord is such a grouch. Gibbs' hangdog cynicism is funny, and the writers have a good ear for dialogue. In one scene Mary's 14-year-old daughter tries to sweet-talk Mom into letting her and a friend go to the movies. Mary figures out the ruse and turns them down. "Told you it wouldn't work," says the daughter as they stalk...
...party through the evening, sometimes darting close to confide something to the attentive President. Anticipation was etched on his face. He turned to his lovely dinner companions, Lisbeth Schluter and Katherine Evans, editor of the Washington Journalism Review, and explained: "If somebody comes up and whispers in my ear and I have to get up hurriedly and leave the table, don't be alarmed. It is because Pete Rose has hit." Rose did not get his milestone hit until the following night, so the President, uninterrupted, went on to tell stories about his ranch, his old friend Jimmy Stewart...
During a practice firing, announced by an ear-shattering klaxon that called the 158-man crew to battle stations, Farmer assumed his post in front of the sub's dual periscopes. As crewmen ticked off information about bearing and depth, the captain verified each reading and repeated in a low but firm voice, "I agree." Then, checking a console screen to his left that showed the status of his 24 weapons, he ordered, "Make missiles ready." In the missile control center one deck below, Weapons Officer Lieut. John Hardenbergh worked at two other consoles that control the silos...
...argument, Daffy encounters some pronoun trouble and tells Elmer, "I demand that you shoot me now!" Daffy turns to Bugs, sticks his tongue out in "nyah" fashion and promptly gets both barrels of Elmer's shotgun. When the smoke clears, Daffy's beak is arranged around his left ear, with the tongue still protruding. Daffy deftly pushes the tongue back into the beak (to a cork-popping sound effect), replaces the mandible, stalks over to Bugs and / mutters, "Let's run through that again." Bugs' cunning, Elmer's gullibility, Daffy's indomitable ego and Director Chuck Jones' comic artistry...