Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...playful vocals of the Pointer Sisters and the powerful pop saxophone of Springsteen sidekick Clarence Clemons. And Run-DMC's new rap, "Christmas In Hollis," (also included on Profile Records' new compilation Christmas Rap) not only provides some decent rapping and scratching, but adds a touch of humor to the LP as well...
Director Adam Fratto makes the most of The Foreigner's farcical elements. Most of the play's humor comes either from the situation, as Charlie relishes his new persona more and more, or from Shue's witty dialogue. Catherine, feeling guilty because she thinks she is less upright than her fiance, complains, "Some people are just meant to be a waste of food, and I think I'm one of them...
...does he? With his campaign running near empty, long on crisp ideas but woefully short of money and notice, he finds himself fueled by that blend of humor, optimism and righteousness peculiar to dark-horse crusaders. It helps him endure those indignities that now come with a campaign, such as confessing that he had used marijuana. It helps him endure the awkward difficulty of having to explain such admissions over the phone to his two young sons...
...Brown's attorneys, found her sane, albeit eccentric. Throwing up his hands at the experts, Judge Lippmann quoted the Roman poet Juvenal: "Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous." He found Brown to be "educated, intelligent." In court "she displayed a sense of humor, pride, a fierce independence of spirit." Neither suicidal nor malnourished, Brown can meet her own essential needs. Street life may be an "offense to aesthetic senses," the judge declared, but "freedom, constitutionally guaranteed, is the right of all, no less of those who are mentally ill . . . beggars can be choosers...
...foreign shrugs and intonations, the rabbi's son was born Jacob Maza in Sheboygan, Wis. He and his three brothers followed their father's profession, but, he confesses, "I didn't feel it. I wasn't dedicated." Assigned to a Weldon, N.C., synagogue, Mason gained a reputation for injecting humor into sermons. "Congregations would say to me, 'Rabbi, you should be a comedian.' I began to take their advice...