Word: humorlessly
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...Hoving about reporting on culture. Shanks has signed French Documentary Maker Marcel Ophuls (The Sorrow and the Pity) to film reports from Europe and former Esquire Editor Harold Hayes to oversee the editorial content. In a confidential memo to his bosses, Shanks wrote that 60 Minutes is "pontifical and humorless, and its 14-minute pieces nowadays often seem too long." He promised that 20/20 would be wittier and move faster. "We don't travel to the Coast by train any more," Shanks elaborated last week. "People perceive things in shorter forms today...
...Broadway, you'll have an enjoyable evening. Moliere's play is strong enough to carry its own weight and with the help of the aforementioned outstanding supporting players, The Imaginary Invalid can be a real belly laugh. Unless of course you are a pre-med or a humorless hypochondriac...
...tripe like this is awfully sad to hear. "Love Need a Heart," a Lowell George composition, is an endless dirge indistinguishable from any nine Linda Ronstadt songs. "You Love the Thunder" is a faceless, mindless rocker in the mold of "Redneck Friend," but lacking the wit. It's a humorless song--and without a sense of humor, upbeat L.A. rock can be terribly dull...
Reynolds is an ingratiating actor who, because he's fun to watch, can save even the junkiest movie. On the other hand, I can always count on Eastwood to be depressingly tight-lipped and humorless...
...change and "a slackening of the pursuit of excellence." Their report cited such cadet slang terms as "cool on academics" and "cooperate and graduate'' as indicative of the attitude of a large majority of a typical class. Perhaps worst of all, the officers said, "a relatively humorless atmosphere seems to prevail. A certain grimness marks many of the cadets...