Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thompson writes with humor, and experiences a certain amount of cynical amusement himself. At first the seriousness of the book is lost amid a series of cliches about Southern life. As the corrupt mayor, the high school sweetheart and the bumbling policeman are introduced, the book begins as a condemnation of the incestousness and stifling boredom of small-town America...
...female candidate for the Eighth Congressional race, asked O'Neill to run. According to her husband, Thomas P. O'Neill III, former lieutenant governor, she did seriously consider taking up the offer. "She's the most electable O'Neill," he says. "She's throughly liberal with a sense of humor, and that stands out in a crowd...
Parker filmed The Girl in the Picture in Forsyth's vignettes-from-real-life style, but he left out a crucial ingredient. Forsyth's films have a subtle, underlying madcap element that gives his productions an air of unseen comic conspiracy intruding on the mundane world. Despite its humor and certain intermittent absurdities, The Girl in the Picture remains basically a mundane portrayal of romantic love...
Good character seems to be an important element to seek in a tenured professor. Professor Brinkley's wonderful scholarship, his keen mind and sense of humor will be missed by many of us students who took his courses, but the decency, compassion, and good character he brought to the History Department and which he'll take with him will leave Robinson Hall with a certain sense of emptiness...
...brought on to recall a "contained," "testy, easily depressed man," "cranky to be considered this 'national treasure' and not sell." Herrmann adds that after the failure of his last play, The Beauty Part, in 1963, "(Perelman) began to lose the comic writer's most precious gift -- a sense of humor." This will come as a great surprise to readers who enjoyed Perelmania in five later collections of essays as well as a number of saline interviews and commentaries. It is true that personally Perelman was never Mr. Sunshine and that he always craved more recognition and rewards than he received...