Word: humorlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disgraceful. It is just ordinary and needs some shower-room tile to bulk it up. Somebody is kidding somebody else here: Does Waller realize that the CD is mediocre? If so, does he suppose his fans won't care? Is he simply -- and at any cost, even ridicule -- a humorless self-advertiser...
...movement is the rising disapproval ratings for both of them. Neither candidate is getting across a message that he can be an urban Mr. Fixit. Dinkins comes off as a courtly but unimaginative bureaucrat with a taste for fussy clothes and fancy ceremonies. Giuliani has a reputation as a humorless autocrat with an abrasive management style that involves shooting first and asking questions later...
...noticed that with children of politicians (you know Gore's daddy was a senator), they're just so long in the public eye and started so young that they tend to have a real public face. And Gore has, of course, the public face of an utterly humorless young Baptist minister...
...sleeps with Elizabeth's baby-sitter, then ignores her, and when she dies in an auto accident decreed by the author to get everyone's moping started, wonders fretfully whether he is obliged to attend her funeral. Other people behave shabbily, all of them, like Lottie, largely humorless and utterly self-absorbed. An occasional good line briefly clears the prevailing swamp gas, as when Lottie sums things up for her brother's lover's complaining husband: "She left you. You chased her. On the , great seesaw of love, she's up and you're down...
...double dose of fairy tale fun, several energetic young-at-heart performers give new spirit to The Emperor's New Clothes and A. A. Milne's Ugly Duckling. The production, entitled "Ugly Ever After," provides a much needed alternative to often humorless and lengthy campus productions. And the low, low ticket price of one dollar makes this package hard to resist...