Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been toasted with champagne. They put the author in a prominent chair, and people came and knelt to share a word. Elsewhere in the rooms, literary conversations were going on. The theme of the annual William Faulkner conference this year upstate at Oxford, one organizer volunteered, is the humor in Faulkner's works. "A lot of people just don't see it," he added...
This evasion is irritating because Breathed often comes so close to really super humor, only to fall short at the last moment. One never forgets his short attempts the time that he was Christic Brinkley host the evening news (the voice over: "and now here's Christic with tonight's lead story on a chain-saw murder-suicide in Toledo." Milo: "Go For It!!" Christie: "Hi! Oh Gross..") Or Elvis' secret diaries, or Norma the Nuke--but one is almost always left dissatisfied. More annoying still is Breathed's attempt to pass off his lack of follow-through as creative...
...colorful Helms, 62, wields highly charged oratory as a nationwide clarion for the right. "The Soviets are out for blood everywhere in the world," he says on the stump. His invective is peppered with humor: "I was standing on the Capitol steps when an empty cab pulled up and Walter Mondale got out. I even saw Ted Kennedy with his hands in his own pocket...
...design. Although it has its share of exemplary stylists, the Times rarely achieves the aura of spontaneity and surprise that beguiles (or infuriates) readers of the Washington Post or the Boston Globe. The prose is often institutional or, in features, cloyingly cute. Admits Rosenthal: "The paper has not much humor." The staffs awareness of its power and responsibility has resulted in a high level of accuracy, although the editorial stance, the Op-Ed page selections and occasionally the news judgments tilt to the left...
...landing in Salerno in September 1943. He first piqued the nation's imagination a year earlier, when he was smuggled into Algeria by submarine on a mostly successful cloak-and-dagger mission to win French support for the imminent Allied invasion of North Africa. Known for his humor and daring, Clark was nearly killed on several occasions while leading his troops; he once personally spearheaded an attack on 18 German tanks. His polyglot force included 26 nationalities, as well as the first black American combat troops and a heroic Japanese-American contingent. Clark was a commander who cared about...