Word: funning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Someone introduced them," he recalls, "but it wasn't me. I was off cooking for 60 guests, but I got the credit . . . or the blame, whatever your perspective. Donna's a nice girl, personable and fun, but I feel sorry for her, and saddened and aggravated by the way she chose to exploit the situation. She figured her life was ruined, and she damn well wanted to get something out of it all. That's O.K., as long as it didn't involve...
Scene: Some watering hole in Queens, New York. The Mets are on the tube, and most of the bar's patrons are making fun of Darryl Strawberry. Except for two gentlemen, who sit in a corner booth. One is opening a bottle of Budweiser. The other is crying...
...grumbled about draconian parking restrictions. Opposition leaders complained that the three-day affair was costly evidence of Mitterrand's "megalomania" (estimates range from $66 million to $280 million), moving Culture Minister Jack Lang to rage against "grinches and killjoys." But such petty squabbles could not spoil the flamboyant funky fun of the Florida A&M University marching band, gliding in a moonwalk down the Champs Elysees. Nor could they dampen the soaring spirit evoked when American diva Jessye Norman, wrapped in the blue, white and red colors of the French flag, sang La Marseillaise. For a few fleeting days...
...politics is always more fun than government. And Bush, after all, won the White House last year by visiting flag factories and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Whatever the lawyers' cautions, any good politician knows another axiom: Dance with the one what brung...
...trouble is that rude realism keeps raising its voice, breaking in on the fun. The sound track naturally resounds with the orgasmic hammering of the Lewis beat, wails with the simple, not to say crude, sexual metaphors of his lyrics. Dennis Quaid very successfully re-creates his dervish-like stage presence (he made Elvis' pelvis look as if it were stuck in the mud) in a portrayal that goes over the top in nicely calculated measure. And Winona Ryder contributes a hypnotically enigmatic performance -- articulate innocence and inarticulate knowingness all mixed up -- as the singer's nymphet bride. All these...