Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...able to take negative comments in stride, more or less, provided that the observations are factual. When I reported in 1980 that she tended to carry a grudge, she laughingly complained, then joked that she would remember that sentence for only a few years. She has a sense of humor as well as a sense of politics...
...affair? In his first novel, Jordan, author of a poignant memoir about minor-league baseball, A False Spring, continues to show a canny sense of time and place. His descriptions of the stressful world of the freelance, his evocations of athletes' bars, locker rooms and motels have verisimilitude and humor. True, Jordan's plot, like his characters, is a bit worn, but it is also, like them, wholly credible...
MICKI AND Maude cannot escape the Edwardsian aura of mechanical humor, though the actors manage to emerge with more of their humanity intact than normal for one of Edwards's movies. Part of the reason is that an obsession for fatherhood is a far more complicated affair than an obsession for sex, chocolate, or even motherhood. Another good chunk of the credit goes to the three principals, all of whom appear friendly and accessible on the screen. I would even have given some of the credit to Edwards had I not stuck around to see the movie's credits...
...like so much else of Bok's private personality, this sense of humor is largely hidden to the public behind the cool demeanor and clipped words that symbolize the public Bok. There is much else that is hidden as well--for instance the fact that he once had such a talent for the clarinet that he could have, according to a close friend, made a living from...
...Chief then looks Agent Dirtydeal, Ed Meese, right in the eye and, using that famous sense of humor, he quips, "I sure hope they don't have the goods on us goods...