Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attraction are also intensely predictable, which keeps the movie from lifting off. Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller and Matt Dillon all give their best shot to keeping the ball in the air, but for one thing, their presence is almost arbitrary in many scenes to the extent that Mary's humor is all visual and only rarely connected to dialogue; poor Cameron could be reciting Rilke beneath those "hair gel"-enhanced bangs and no one would know the difference. Then again, everyone else seems to have had a ball. Whatever there is about Mary, I didn't really get it. Nicholas...
...Ibis back on top of the Lampoon Castle. Everyone knows that scurrilous under-graduate politicos have squirreled the unfortunate bird away in University Hall and, frankly, the remainder of the College community wants that little fowl-ic symbol of good humor back...
...eyes blue--no ordinary blue, but blue that defines the color, the first blue, the blue open eye of the sea. Once thought extinct, it can turn inside out, and hide in a cloak of itself. If one doubts the range of nature's imagination--or sense of humor--picture a Vampyroteuthis staring into a self-created darkness, 3,000 ft. below the surface, while nearer shore, an otter snacks...
...their delicate, acoustic lounge songwriting, Saint Etienne has been busily crafting taut electronic Euro-pop for nearly a decade now. If their sophisticated European following is any indication, Saint Etienne has all but captured the sound of sunny metropolitan luxury. However, only on their latest, utterly adroit album Good Humor has the band truly devised ravishing and flawless pop music in the most classic sense of the term. Boasting the lush, crisp sound that has evolved slowly from their first album Foxbase Alphawhich, though impressively sweet, now sounds dated and conventional. Good Humor crackles with upbeat melodies, urbane lyrics...
...Good Humor, musical nostalgia is entirely the point, with the excellent and witty assistance of veteran Cardigans producer Tore Johannson integrating diverse genre elements and quotations to create the albums deliriously composite and cohesive sound. Good Humor is almost inconceivable: a broad, ecstatic blend of the pristine disco of ABBA, the elegant jazz pop of Steely Dan, the rhythmic bass throb of funk and the bleary-eyed cocktail electronica of trip-hop. The product is anything but tired; on Sylvie, for example, the rueful, cosmopolitan irony of the lyric is offset completely by a glowing arrangement. The overlay of subtle...