Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anderson's colleagues attribute his success as the University Marshal to his informal manner and sense of humor complemented by an air of sophistication. The combination commanded respect, yet made visitors feel welcome and relaxed. Anderson modestly claims. "I'm not a scholarly man," but those people who have witnessed the former marshal at work--coolly throwing his leg over a chair arm and conversing with the guest de jour--believe that Anderson himself possesses "ambassadorial qualities" of the dignitaries he entertained...
Poor acting and stage directions are occasionally forgotten because of the extreme humor of the dialogue. But the actual women in The Importance of Being Earnest, Riggs and Worthing's "excessively pretty 18-year-old ward" Cecily Cardew (Melinda McNavy), act like two adolescents in love for the first time. After Cardew leaves Algernon, whom she has just met, she says deridingly that "a momentary separation from someone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable." But their costumes are distasteful and their overly innocent manners crush Wilde's lines to triteness...
...fantasy and glamour" of the muscles and brawn of the hunks on TV [April 4] grow dull. The charm, humor, sensitivity and style of Remington Steele (Pierce Brosman) stimulate...
...Kenzo, in Washington. Entrepreneur Hakuta, who has an M.B.A. from Harvard and runs a Washington-based import-export firm called Tradex, was immediately smitten with the toy and arranged to have it shipped to the U.S. He says: "I figured it might be something that could put humor into this recession." (Tradex, which has its headquarters in Hakuta's house, had previously been engaged in the less-than-hilarious business of selling cat food to Japan and importing karate uniforms...
...WOULD be misguided to muster up much sympathy for Shields, who, when she does unpack her bags in Princeton, will undoubtedly manage both the People press corps and a flock of undergraduate humor editors with her customary photogenic aplomb. More pity is due Princeton and its otherwise august members of the admissions committee, who, in brushing up against the models and show biz and high-speed, high-paying gossip, have come away with the definite smudge of cheap newsprint on their lapels...