Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young American (Steve Guttenberg); here sex is represented as a love-light that ricochets around the swimming pool. Like E.T. and a dozen other fantasy films, it boasts gorgeous, if insubstantial special effects from George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic studio. And there is just enough locker-room humor to keep the gross-out brigade from snoring in their seats. But the film alchemizes these elements through its tone of gentle melancholy. For nesting inside Cocoon is a parable about life meeting death -- an affecting mortality play about old people touched or affected by America's youth culture...
...Nervous humor was constant, like static. A small-town politician half boasted to a companion that "in our town we've had two derailments in the last five months." He chuckled. "Neither one was carrying hazardous chemicals," he said, chuckling again. "But I think our nine lives are up," he finished, chuckling still more heartily. The Rev. Mr. Page told a joke about the Johnstown flood more than once. James Stinson, a former Green Beret, now an antiterrorism consultant, pressed a button hooked to a slide projector. "I hope this doesn't detonate anything," he said...
...counterpart to the Jewish program has been prepared for introduction later this year. In October an Arab-Jewish television series modeled on a long-popular U.S. situation comedy, All in the Family, is tentatively scheduled to come out over the Israel Broadcasting Authority, using ethnic differences as material for humor...
...People like my sense of humour in lecture," says Fleming. Students describe his humor as bawdy, but Fleming says his humor is rooted in "the tone in which I discuss things." In fact, Fleming says he never tells jokes. "I can't remember them...
WHAT REALLY MAKES Doubting Thomas worthwhile, however, despite the wild and morbid humor and the absurd plot twists, is its skillful portrayal of the academic world. Reeves, himself a Harvard graduate student for many years, gets to the heart of the academic quandary and the dark depths of faculty polities with more than a little humor...