Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE HAS ALWAYS been an element of horror lurking behind the humor of Monty Python. In The Life of Brian, for instance, the members of the British comedy troupe presented us with the deeply disturbing image of a chorus of men and women singing "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" while being crucified at Golgotha...
...little closer to his face, and he seemed for a moment to stop reading the cue cards. Hinting at the secrecy of the Soviet space program, he was wide-eyed, ruddy-cheeked, virtually light-hearted. He had the cocky, cagey look of a reverend who has suddenly resurrected humor from a grim funeral party, the irreproachable charm of a boy who has insouciantly wiped his nose on his mother's burial shroud...
...size bed, dressed in faded jeans and a trailworn denim jacket, and nursing a tin of day-old Skoal and a bottle of worm-blessed Mexican tequila, Shepard rides the bed like a rundown rodeo star, and when he throws his girl May a particularly wistful smile, all the humor and pathos of Shepard's writing comes shining clean through...
...consonants contained in the words "Rich Old White Men" do not have to pay tuition. In even-numbered years, everyone else is absolved. Consequently, 1986-7 College tuition hits $45,900. Comments a stunned O'Brien, "Jezz--I didn't know those guys had such a great sense of humor...
...Tuesday--A team of Harvard Police snipers wounds the three terrorists, but accidentally blows the beak off the Ibis and puts a dozen holes in the famed President's Chair. An apparently brainwashed Greaney, however, tells his rescuers that the humor society will be evicting the Starr Bookstore to make way for a free veterinary clinic...