Word: humor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...event of today's festivities is a guest address by the Commissioner of Major League Baseball and organizer of the 1984 Olympics Peter V. Ueberroth (see profile on page 11). Ueberroth was chosen by members of the class committee as "someone who will be generally light and will inject humor into the proceedings," says Diane Jellis, an organizer of Senior Week with the Alumni Office...
...more, on whatever he writes next. Early success is followed, almost metronomically, by harsh reappraisal; and in the process, many promising writers are intimidated, disillusioned or silenced. Still, every playwright dreams of seeing his work designed with authenticity, directed with vigor and grace, and acted with menace, tenderness and humor. That is what has happened to Cuba...
...dialogue is sharp and colorful yet fits the characters, he never bogs down in exposition, and he sentimentalizes nothing. Bill Hart's direction matches the scuffed-linoleum and religious-kitsch realism of Donald Eastman's set and ensures that low-life pathos never overwhelms the play's bawdy, feisty humor...
...screen the teen heroines he had scribbled on paper. Samantha Baker, Claire Standish and Andie Walsh are of different classes (sophomore, senior, senior) and different classes (middle, moneyed, working poor). But they share qualities that Hughes must have seen in Ringwald: a coiled poise, a resilient sense of humor about herself, an openness to emotions. Without forcing feelings, Molly can coax them effortlessly to the surface. Feel bad, Sam? Her face puffs, flushes and blotches; depression looks like an instant allergy. Feel good, Andie? Her face lights up like a neon billboard on Sunset Strip. "She has this terrific ability...
...damaged young man . . . who had undergone some unique process of depreciation" in Bleak House, was the poet Leigh Hunt. A boasting letter from Charles Dickens is exhibit A: "The likeness is astonishing. I don't think it could be more like (Hunt) himself." Dickens tempered his Victorian portrait with humor, but George Eliot was made of sterner stuff. Apologizing to a clergyman who had recognized an unflattering likeness in Scenes of Clerical Life, she explained that she had thought he was dead...