Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night and a day of commemorative talk. The opening session, at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Wheeling, finds Wright's widow quietly reading from his letters and Wright Biographer Peter Stitt delivering several of the landmark poems in a clipped, dry, ironic voice, praising the poet's deft humor and his bottomless affection for "the unnamed poor...
...Deans at Cambridge University. A group of young men are gathered to engage in pretentious debate over the relative worth of music, conversation, and a veal cutlet, It's a nice start but it also turns out to be one of the very few moments of humor in the script. The rest of this solemn movie follows the next five years of Maurice's life as he transforms himself from a callow undergraduate into a cultivated city stock-broker, all the while guarding his secret from the Dean, the police and London society...
...avenge the death of his father and is involved in a ruthless search for the six-fingered killer. When he finds him, he intimidates his prey by emulating a broken record. "I am Inigo Montoya," he drones repeatedly. "You killed my father. Prepare to die." This attempt at humor, like many of the film's "comic" touches, entirely misses its mark...
...painting that Polly believes is the most beautiful she's ever seen. Instead of trying to find a suitable painting, an attempt that would inevitably have failed, Rozema fashions the painting as a brilliantly glowing rectangle. The pull of this personal vision, combined with Rozema's quirky humor, makes Mermaids irresistable...
Doonesbury has been appearing in The Crimson since 1975. Bloom County is in its third year on page four of Cambridge's only breakfast-table daily, the only source of humor emanating from the Plympton St./Arrow St. area...