Word: funs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Durang pokes fun at the hectic pace of American life by having Dr. Framingham insist, "Our society is fastpaced, so I have fast ejaculations," and he demonstrates the falseness of modern relationships by having Bruce and his analyst invent a personal ad "guaranteed" to attract women...
...could go "for hours and days just playing by myself or reading," and recalls with pleasure how she would build little towns in her room or beg her father to let her throw a pot, or have spirited games of chess with Tan. "I find it very fun to be thinking all the time, figuring things out. I guess you could say I was somewhat of a nerd," she laughs...
Despite such fishing expeditions, the Times is a colorful alternative to the sometimes staid Post. Hard-driving local news coverage, an award-winning sports section and provocative cultural writing make the paper a fun read. Amid reams of conservative commentary, it delivers scoops on such diverse matters as sewage-plant woes and Redskin-ticket scams. The paper covers the city's black community in greater depth than the Post. Still, while Ronald Reagan doted on the Times's conservatism, George Bush merely includes it among the six papers he reads each morning. And nothing yet convinces Post managing editor Leonard...
Ford goes about doing good while doing well. He plays golf all over the world for fun and charity, reminds everybody he was an Eagle Scout and still lives by the code, practices old-fashioned partisan politics in election season and openly relishes the money from the boardroom...
Oliver and Waldeck win over listeners because they are entertainers first and crusaders second. Dressed in T shirts and sneakers, they mix humor with their anger, and fun with their activism. In one number, Waldeck strolls around the stage under an umbrella. The lyric: "I walk the shores of Lake Champlain/ in the placid acid rain." In another tune, Waldeck dreams of being reincarnated as a "big, wrecking ball" so he can "crack down on condos." But fast-food executives would not find the show especially funny. "Lay down your Whopper and your fries," one song goes. "Save a rain...