Word: humor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liven his campaign speeches, Dole rattles off jokes, rapid-fire, like a string of firecrackers. But while he maintains that "I use humor to wake people up," he has often used it to cut them up. In 1974 he barely won re- election to the Senate over Dr. William Roy, a Topeka obstetrician, in one of the nastiest campaigns in Kansas history. Says Roy, who shares Dole's flair for vindictive rhetoric: "He was a slasher and a cutter. You almost felt he cut for the pleasure of cutting." Recalling how Dole ranted about "Democrat wars" when he was Gerald...
...hoary genre. Compared with their new effort, though, Blood Simple was just a five-finger exercise with a knife spiked through the hand. To their old fascination with Sunbelt pathology, to their side-winding Steadicam and pristine command of screen space, the Coens have added a robust humor, a plot that keeps outwitting expectations and a surprising dollop of sympathy for their forlorn kidnapers...
...played with subtle wit by Adriane Stewart, holds tight to her sense of humor even though she's just had an abortion and, the dialogue implies, been raped. She all but steals the show as she mopes around the stage interjecting sarcastic comments under her breath. Lyra O. Barrera's Stas--a whore bent on hustling her way to a Hawaiian medical school--prances around in her underwear reading Scientific American out loud and advising Dusa and Fish to toughen...
Having strange and meaningless names on our buildings is a small price to pay for free buildings--although it does open us up to practical jokers such as a certain Mr. Jones who allegedly donated a building under the name "Wigglesworth" because of an aggravating sense of humor...
However, the eve of Saint Patrick's Day saw little good humor during an acrimonious four-hour hearing attended by 100 city cab drivers. Of the many proposals discussed, the councilors and members of the cab industry agreed on only one: a 25 percent increase in city cab fares. The increase would be the first in six years, a period which has seen a cumulative inflation of 37 percent...