Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Martin Short -- may have won their early stardom cadging laughs on TV or in the burgeoning comedy-club scene (see following story). Yet the Motion Picture Academy continues to lay laurels on lesser mortals whose roles require that they cry over the phone, commit suicide or speak with an English accent...
...ignoring Roxanne. It is a sleeper summer hit, Martin's biggest since The Jerk. It is based on an honorable property, Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. It dares to plump for the supremacy of two old-fashioned notions: romantic love as the meeting of true minds and the English language as a tool for wooing and wonder. The script challenges its star to be at once noble and fatuous, strong and swooning, utterly in control and desperately in love -- all of which Martin handles as gracefully as if he'd written it himself (which he did). And in case...
...Moby Dick is written on three levels." (English...
...summer' s best- selling surprises are by two heavyweight authors -- Philosophy Professor Allan Bloom and English Professor E. D. Hirsch Jr. Though their books are not easy going, readers find the stinging critiques riveting. Hirsch claims that U. S. schools are turning out culturally illiterate students, while Bloom charges that colleges have failed altogether...
From death in Detroit to the supernatural in an English cathedral, a sampler of mysteries. -- The tragic odyssey of a Harlem youth...