Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wooden. "Why did you insist on marrying me?" Natalie asks Byron. "We could have made love as much as you wanted. But now you've tied me to you on this rope of burning nerves." Furthermore, in all the hours of script there is scarcely a glint of humor. As a collegiate critic once said about an earlier work: "All Wouk and no play...
...fact is, however, that as well as we think of the steady, settled mind, we neither wholeheartedly trust, approve of or admire it, nor do we wish it for ourselves. In late 16th century England, a literary genre developed called the comedy of humors, which was at base the comedy of consistent thought and action. A humor, as Elizabethan playwrights defined it, was an exaggerated human trait, a leaning of disposition so severe as to create a caricature. Thus a character in a comedy of humors would be called Squire Downright, and only downright would he act. In 1900, Henri...
Thus her 13th novel, The Painted Lady, wrought out of a decade of travail, long silences and undoubted artistic growth, comes as a reassuring surprise. A tale of loves won and lost on a ten-day Mediterranean cruise, The Painted Lady is more than entertaining; its verve and humor disguise a serious work. Sagan's cruise has a musical motif; the deluxe passengers have each paid $15,000 to listen to a virtuoso pianist and a celebrated diva perform aboard a ship pointedly christened Narcissus. The lure is also gastronomical: "The port of call determined the musical work...
Baker, 57, was elected to the Senate in 1966, after one unsuccessful campaign and a profitable career as a lawyer. His fairness and humor made him a national figure during the 1973 televised Watergate hearings. After a halfhearted try for the presidential nomination in 1980, Baker concluded, "You have to be unemployed to run for President," a remark that helped fuel speculation last week...
...neophyte adrift in a computer store, it may seem a beacon of simplicity, sanity and humor. Amid all the intimidating machinery and densely technical literature, its plain white cover asks disarmingly, "What are those television-typewriters anyway?" Inside, it offers quaint woodcuts, turn-of-the-century ads and plenty of soothing printed words. No wonder that The Personal Computer Book, at $9.95, has become the fastest-selling computer guide on the market and has made its author, an erstwhile poet and promoter of Transcendental Meditation, something of an overnight celebrity. Peter McWilliams, 33, who wrote, printed and published the book...