Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more natural and frequent in the world according to everyone. The introductory shots of baby Garp being tossed in the air by his mother, rising and falling with a different animated expression each time, sets the lighthearted, warm tone. Williams' restrained antics, which produce most of the laughs, both entertain and soothe the Garp family and the audience. "Don't say, Ma-Ma, Duncan, say Da-Da," he admonishes his first baby, grimacing for added emphasis...
...department head who does not entertain such fancies, does not at some time or another convince himself that he could do a better job than his President, is not worth having in any Cabinet. Yet, if a Cabinet officer is to endure, such genies must be stuffed back into their bottles and corked almost as soon as they emerge...
Chargling that the massage is worn, the acting pedestrian and the storyline weak should not imply that E.T. fails altogether. It effectively accomplishes its modest goal: to entertain on a warm June evening. Unlike the other half of Spielberg's summer twinbill, Poltergeist, which is supposed to scare, while conveying big statements about the origins of fear and modernism--fumbling on all counts-- K.T. succeeds in providing two hours of carefree...
Usually, it is only from the safety of retrospect and an established self that we entertain ourselves with visions of an alternative life. The daydreams are an amusement, a release from the monotony of what we are, from the life sentence of the mirror. The imagination's pageant of an alternative self is a kind of vacation from one's fate. Kierkegaard did not really mean he should have been a police spy, or Nixon that he should have been a sportswriter. The whole mechanism of daydreams of the antiself usually depends upon the fantasy remaining fantasy. Hell...
...York Daily News, is marked by aggressive resentment and romantic disillusion. His monosyllabic prose rolls down the page with the subtlety of a bowling ball, although the kingpins he aims at and often hits are automatically respotted with no lasting damage. Breslin's ability to entertain is another matter. His Archie Bunker accent and appearance as a working-class wide body put him in beer commercials and a movie. It was not too hard to parlay his writing talents into popular hardbacks. His fiction to date: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, a spoof of the Mafia...