Word: humorless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ashamed that their conversation hearts are--well--easy to make (3 T. sugar, 1 t. dye, 1 t. chalk dust. Yield: one conversation heart). They're afraid to let me see that the catchy sayings are not generated by the whimsy of a human mind but by a gigantic, humorless computer, nicknamed "The Lovemaster...
...Their sets have started the same way for the past four-and-a-half decades--two members of the group came onto the stage and explained why the rest of the group could not join them. Traditions can be nice, but this opening bit was so poorly written and humorless that perhaps the Kroks should consider scrapping...
...this play is more accurately a series of vacuous show tunes set back-to-back, with only the sparsest of dialogue separating musical numbers. And while a few of the tunes are catchy ("Razzle-Dazzle" and "Cell Block Tango" are both amusing), most of the dialogue seems flat and humorless. One exchange between Roxie and her lawyer is particularly foolish. When Roxie tells Billy, "You treat me like some dumb common criminal," he replies, "You are some dumb common criminal." Couldn't book writers Ebb and Bob Fosse have done better than this...
...humorless prude? Given what we know about today's America, certainly not. My mother could imagine rape was rare; I know it is common. She wondered if my future husband would "deserve" me; I wonder if my daughter's will put her in the hospital, or even the grave. My parents fretted over buying me a Barbie, and my husband and I will have that discussion too, one day. But whom are we kidding? What's one more sexist image in the current climate of meanspirited misogyny -- Sam Kinison and Andrew Dice Clay, Jason and Freddy, 2 Live Crew...
...self-destruction of Dartmouth's strongest conservative force on campus was inevitable, but also regrettable. As campuses grow increasingly hypersensitive and humorless, as lefist faculties continue to trash Western culture, the need for alternative viewpoints is greater than ever...