Word: funning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while some might argue that it's easy to have fun when you're winning, Scalise's antics predate the team's "glory days...
...Dallas is watching him play an overstuffed lago in a stetson hat. Mean? There ain't nobody meaner than this dude. But Hagman plays him with such obvious zest and charm that he is impossible to dislike. Why was lago so evil? Hagman knows: it's fun being bad. And that is the secret the creators of Dallas have discovered too. Audiences applaud the good guys, but they watch the bad ones, hour after hour after hour. -Gerald Clarke
...even a threadbare musical like My Fair Lady can be mended with judicious shearing of cast and plot and modernizing of a few phrases of antiquated moralism. Delawie had innumerable versions to choose as models for his adaptation; he could even have set it in Cambridge and poked fun at Dorchester accents...
...Kevin White would have nothing to talk about in a debate with Timilty. But it's more fun to use the issues as a backdrop for personal attacks. So White has labelled Timilty a "basic barroom drinker with general tastes" and accused him of floating all over the issues. "I believe he cannot run this city and I think everyone in the business knows it but the public," the mayor says, "I can see him now getting elected saying. 'Uh, what do I do now?"' Timilty hasn't hesitated to step into the fray, of course. When asked about possible...
...first time I started into the puddle I thought 'I really don't want to do this,' but once I went in I thought it was fun," Piersiak said. "I think the rain really bothered Brown, but we can adapt more easily to lousy conditions...