Word: humorless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to question their responses. They seemed like the leering, drooling maniacs in the asylum scene of Brian Depalma's Dressed to Kill, applauding the strangulation and partial stripping of a nurse. The image is a sardonic joke and undoubtedly meant to mirror the audience, but thousands of humorless nurses and women are picketing the film across the country, claiming it presents violence against women as erotic. They ought to be out marching against Humanoids from the Deep instead of wasting their time on a passable thriller with a sense of humor and delusions of grandeur, where the violence against...
...want to question their responses. They seemed like the leering, drooling maniacs in the asylum scene of Brian Depalma's Dressed to Kill, applauding the strangulation and partial stripping of a nurse. The image is a sardonic joke and undoubtedly meant to mirror the audience, but thousands of humorless nurses and women are picketing the film across the country, claiming it presents violence against women as erotic. They ought to be out marching against Humanoids from the Deep instead of wasting their time on a passable thriller with a sense of humor and delusions of grandeur, where the violence against...
...inmates to have begged for mercy when tortured by SAVAK, the Shah's secret police. "His behavior at the time was certainly not heroic," notes one former prisoner. Students in his math classes at the Kamal Islamic high school in Tehran describe Raja'i as "inflexible" and "humorless," qualities that he appears to have brought with him into political life. He showed an awesome highhandedness as Minister of Education, for example, by disbanding the entire provincial school system in the rebellious western region of Kurdistan and firing 12,000 teachers. His reason: Communists had allegedly infiltrated the schools...
...JESUS SAVES smothers him in neon and print--he tries to rebel by founding his own Church Without Christ and immersing himself in sin. His is a church where "the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way." He is humorless in a crazy world, aiming with violent integrity to keep Jesus Christ from controlling his life but simultaneously embracing the guidance--positive or negative--that Jesus offers him. It is a deeply religious story, wryly tragic and depressingly comic as Haze unsuccessfully probes for the path to eternal damnation...
...with the activist humor of Lear's best sitcoms. Still, a lot of hard work lies ahead. Though the first episode of Palmerstown abundantly illustrates Lear's and Haley's political concerns, it offers little evidence of their considerable dramatic gifts. The show is completely humorless and simplistic in its moralizing; it embraces exactly the kind of preachiness that Haley and Lear have scrupulously avoided in the past...