Word: humorless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handshake was firm. But his personality was not hypnotic. His eyes possessed no power, as the myths had it. Hitler's skin was coarse and his mustache slightly gray. His bottom teeth were goldplated, which made Helms suspect they were false. Hitler's smile was humorless but his manner was pleasant enough. What was it about this plain man that had brought him so far, Helms wondered as Hitler talked of his hatred of Bolshevism, of the value of the party congress. Later, Helms would write: "No imagination could make anything godlike out of the ordinary mortal...
...recent years, there has certainly not been a more humorless Hamlet, nor a less philosophical one. Perhaps symbolically, the top acting honors go to George Hall, who doubles as the sly, salty old gravedigger...
...CONTRAST to the kind, caring kids, there are two kinds of adults in E.T.: MOM, the humorless, unobservant adult, abandoned by her husband, has enough problems holding a job while raising three kids. She is too busy and perhaps too mature to notice E.T., even when he is literally under her nose. And there are the cold, calculating adults, represented cloddishly by the nameless, faceless band of NASA men. They are not only aware that E.T. is in town, but also want to trap him and do God-knows-what to him for their own purposes...
...other women in the cast, most of whom are ostensibly her fellow wards, does seem more like babysitter than sister). But they do look older than anyone else on stage, and consequently, their various excesses--incessant mugging from Devenish, a curious lack of passion from West, and a slightly humorless, banker-like mien from Crowley--are all the more pronounced...
...Lampoon was very humorless about the whole thing," Maccoby recalls today. "The statue was all crated and loaded on a boat for Russia and they came and grabbed...