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Word: humorously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gimmick it is. Why should the band be the only entertainment? Let's make the whole thing sophisticated humor in shoulder pads. Theater of the Absurd in an unquestionable ancient setting. It all starts with one phone call...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Gimmick The Game? | 11/14/1978 | See Source »

...What's that? Travel 15 yards for illegal motion? Hey, that's not funny, Carm, especially when I'm paying for the call. And listen, I also found out about those referees you hired to do our game at Princeton. You know you've got a warped sense of humor, fella...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Gimmick The Game? | 11/14/1978 | See Source »

...humor is one kind of comment offered here, and the predominance of narrative dance is another. The problem is that almost all the movement is figurative, a vehicle of the story rather than the other way round. There are lengthy sequences of mime, and even the symbolism of some of the dance patterns comes close to the verbally explicit. You can't mistake the Fairy of Autumn when she sweeps her arms like a scythe...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: The Classic and the Comic | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...great majority of his diocese would agree. A disarming man with a sense of humor and a head for figures, Topel soon proved himself a conservative administrator who delegated authority well and led the diocese into such forward-looking social projects as homes for unwed mothers and housing for the elderly. A notable achievement, the one he is most proud of, was the establishment of the Immaculate Heart Retreat House and a new kind of religious retreat involving private work with a spiritual director and, for the priests and lay Catholics who go there, a 30-day period of almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Spokane: A Pauperish Yet Princely Churchman | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

Smith, without a doubt the most alented soccer player at Harvard in the last four years, had to adapt to a number of changes since coming to the States last fall on something of an impulse. But he has not lost his British sense of humor and not much seems to faze...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Michael Smith Finds A Home | 11/10/1978 | See Source »

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