Word: humorlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard MBA seeks merger with warm, attractive sincere woman with firm assets," pitches one Business School student. An undergraduate challenges readers, "Business School students are narrow-minded, conservative and boring. Law School students are humorless and boring. Medical School students are just boring. Prove this senior woman wrong...
...dark about Markham and Bayliss, by far the movie's most interesting characters. Ultimately, the picture disappoints not because it is bad or stupid, but because it is dull. With such a timely and important topic, it's unfortunate that Defense of the Realm is plagued by the humorless heavy-handedness that so often mars movies dealing with contemporary politics...
...however, drags us through the long rise and fall of relationships at slow speed. If Kaplan wished to subject us to the real life agony of watching love decay, he came close, but he may have oveextended his dramatic resources. Act Two is largely humorless, and coming after the sharp first act makes the play seem far too long--it might do so even by itself. Though the acting does not falter, it is boring to watch, because it has less to convey. The character transitions are a little shaky as well. The ending is not so much a resolution...
From this outline one could imagine farce or domestic tragedy. And indeed the cast of characters--three sisters, bickering parents, the satellite husbands and lovers--could be found in Allen's humorless Interiors (1978). Hannah takes its sufferers seriously but not solemnly; it massages them rather than pointing a finger. Elliot may apostrophize in soppy cliches about his infatuation ("What passion today with Lee! She was like a volcano!"), but he is canny enough to woo Lee with love poems by E.E. Cummings, the thinking man's Kahlil Gibran. Mickey's belief that he has a brain tumor may lead...
Royal Bret Saberhagen was the monkey maker. Cardinal Starter John Tudor, the humorless winner of Games 1 and 4, reacted to being knocked out in the third inning by slugging an electric fan with his pitching hand and, against all odds, finishing the season in stitches. Besides surrendering the first ten days of next year and a fine of $500, Andujar can also expect a bill from the Royals for a battered toilet. It turned out the Cardinals had feet of porcelain...