Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People like my sense of humor in lecture," says Fleming. Students describe his humor as bawdy, but Fleming says his humor is rooted if, "the tone in which I discuss things." In fact, Fleming says he never tells jokes. "I can't remember them...
...specialist in 18th century English literature, Bullitt was widely recognized for his expertise on the satirist Jonathan Swift, as well as for his wide range of talents and sense of humor. His death came just two months after he filed $5 million lawsuits against each of three tobacco manufacturers and a tobacco trade association, charging that the firms employ deceptive advertising to sell their products and do not give adequate health warnings on packages. His wife said that she had not decided whether to continue the suit...
...Humor helps, especially in a form that usually gives off a flat glare of one-dimensional optimism. It is hard not to like the "well read, well shaped, well disposed widow, early sixties, not half bad in the dusk with the light behind me." She sought a "companionable, educated, professional man of wit and taste," and she probably deserved him. Her self-effacement is fairly rare in personals. The ads tend sometimes to be a little ner- vous and needing, and anxiously hyperbolic. Their rhetoric tends to get overheated and may produce unintended effects. A man's hair stands...
Keillor's fame arises from broadcasting such bucolic whimsy, but he is no literary novice. His humor has appeared in such magazines as the Atlantic and The New Yorker, and his stories about the upper Midwest were collected in the best-selling Happy to Be Here (1982). This time, in addition to raising questions about the nature of nostalgia, Keillor explores the confrontation between God-fearing parents and the children they send off to college...
That shouldn't stop any fans of Pee Wee, or of silly humor, from seeing this movie. For while Pee Wee's days as a featured actor will probably be limited in the future by audiences' patience for seeing his routine over and over again, they are still fresh and funny in this flick. Last one to see it is a rotten...