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Word: humorous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believable and appropriate...and he showed a sense of humor," Warsaw said...

Author: By Darcy L. Tromanhauser, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Bush Goes To Andover | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...vertical and horizontal forms of the chase. In Giulio, this son of Isabella d'Este found a court artist whose libidinousness and intelligence fit his own. Both men moved naturally in the imaginative world of a recovered antiquity -- the world of Apuleius and Ovid's Metamorphoses, the brutal sharp humor of Martial's epigrams, the fantasies of a Golden Age and the pseudo-scientific world view of astrology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Between The Sistine, And Disney | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

Even when Monsters' stories are predictable and thin, the show is enlivened by grisly good humor. In one episode, two burglar brothers kill an old lady (Imogene Coca) while ransacking her home, but not before she bites one on the hand. The swollen wound soon takes the shape of the dead woman's face, which won't shut up. "It's like in one of them Wolfman movies," cries the cursed fellow. Replies his dim-witted brother: "What, an old lady bites you, and you turn into another old lady?" This weekend Soupy Sales plays a traveling salesman who, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Invasion of The Wild Things | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...crew were feted at the head table with a lavish meal. Other guests didn't get dinner, but there were drinks and hors d'oeuvres for all. But despite the big bucks lavished on the celebration, everything did not go without a hitch for Harvard's so-called humor magazine. The vodka supplies were critically depleted, according to a basement bartender, and first choice drinks could not be assured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 10/28/1989 | See Source »

...trouble, however, Steiner still hasn't lost his sense of humor about the investigation...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: The High Costs of a Harvard Defense | 10/28/1989 | See Source »

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