Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, Lopez is among the most popular teachers at UCLA-"intense, but with a sense of humor," Bruce C. Doering, president of the UCLA Law Students Bar Association, said last week. His civil rights course in particular gets rave reviews from students, so much so that it has a waiting list for enrollment, Doering added
...addition, Lopez is among the most popular teachers at UCLA-"intense, but with a sense of humor," Bruce C. Doering, president of the UCLA Law Students Bar Association, said last week. His civil rights course in particular gets rave reviews from students, so much so that it has a waiting list for enrollment, Doering added
...Brezhnev burial, Vice President George Bush had been invited for a private chat with the new Communist Party chief, Yuri Andropov. The atmosphere was stiffly formal. Bush, who had been director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1976 to 1977, tried to break the ice with a bit of humor. Said the Vice President: "I feel I already know you, since we served in similar positions." Andropov sized up his American guest through thick bifocals and smiled enigmatically. For the first time in history, a former director of the CIA had come to visit the onetime head of the Komitet...
...Over balances itself out with a satisfying rendition of "stayin' alive," which combines the tongue-in-check humor of the groups's style with a comprehensible, even expressive interpretation of the lyrics the Bee Gees mangled with their baffling falsettos. Vocalist Scott Young gives "stayin' live" the feel it needs to work, singing in a deadpan which avoids both the fervent excitement of the Saturday Night Fever version and the desperation which words like "I'm going nowhere, somebody help me!" seem to require. The delivery is perfect, and when the group sings "That's alright, that...
Although many of these letters can be brushed off as aberrant humor. Hightower asserts that there is a limit to what one can just chuckle about "Some of the letters are genuinely sad, because in many cases you can read between the desperation in the message by the way the word is put down on paper...