Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Swedish director, whose film The Seventh Seal has become the classic portrait of plague-stricken medieval Europe, would probably be surprised to see a play that finds humor where he found existential gloom. And he might be shocked to see mortals play games with Death...
Bush, whose apparent nervousness in the initial debate led to long interludes of incoherence, was as relaxed and confident in Los Angeles as he has ever been on a national stage. His efforts at humor seemed mostly spontaneous rather than the spoon-fed one-liners of backstage handlers. Asked to find something to praise about his Democratic rival, Bush flashed a broad grin and said, "Listen, you're stealing my close. I had something very nice to say in that." This easy-listening tone was established early in the debate, when the Vice President interrupted moderator Shaw, who was trying...
...have to pass the teaching on. And you just wish you could pass on the feeling," Frye says. "I'm very ambivalent about how that will work, but you just have to have humor and hope...
Like Gino, the movie could easily float on its charm, old-fashioned values and easy humor. But as a comedy, it lacks the Mamet bite. One would hardly have expected him to make a film that most grandmothers would love. But then, Things Change...
...malice one must now turn to P.J. O'Rourke, 40, a baby boomer who seems to have teethed on brass knuckles and suckled on bile. He is also one of the funniest writers in America, or anywhere else he may go to satisfy his desperate need to extract humor from folly and chaos...