Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the current gallows humor at NBC eddies around the relationship of Silverman and Pfeiffer, a.k.a. "the Odd Couple" and "Mr. Tough and Mrs. Clean." By most standards, the two top executives are indeed mismatched. Silverman is rumpled and raffish, a volatile high roller, known for his seat-of-the-pants decisions on programming. Pfeiffer is formal and controlled, a superb administrator, known for her idealism and belief in "high programming standards." Where Silverman's language is direct and often unprintable, Pfeiffer's fluctuates between girls' school ("Oh gosh, gee whiz") and "high...
Wilson is a writer with a quirky gift of humor and a romantic bent for a lyrical line, but this entire one-acter seems to be happening in the past tense. Sally and Matt are an appealing duo, but a two-character play without imminent Pinteresque menace is a good facsimile of claustrophobia...
...quality of acting and material easily overcomes these minor difficulties--the sketch or two that is cornier than it is funny, or the rare blown line. The sharp British humor proves as effective in Cambridge as it does in Cambridge...
Manhattan. Woody Allen's latest is, as perceptive critics in every national publication have pointed out, a gloppy mixture of Annie Hall and Interiors--bits of the former's clever humor sprinkled on top of a stale layer of the latter's unbearable dialogue. Manhattan is black-and-white, entertaining, not quite as good as Annie Hall, but better than most other movies you could choose to see. If Allen ever overcomes the paralysis his years of psychoanalysis have induced in his capacity to write serious dialogue, he may yet emerge as the American Bergman. Until then, he should stick...
Wigglesworth said she does not feel she should leave advice for her successor but said to be a professional fundraiser three things are required--"adaptability, a sense of humor and a total commitment to the value of what you are raising money for, in this case Radcliffe, education, and people working for people...