Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is another show from MTM Enterprises and has many of the house hallmarks: askew humor, good pace that is not in too much of a hurry for character, smart acting, quirky scripts. One recent show, written by Lee Zlotoff and directed by Jeff Bleckner, borrowed, with shrewd and subtle acknowledgment, not only a plot device but a character from Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest and did its source no dishonor. That is playing in the big leagues. But with the blithe charms of Zimbalist and Brosnan, Remington Steele is shaping up as championship stuff. -By Jay Cocks
...these songs, the head of the house shoulders the burden of the broken dreams, and the family, racked economically from the outside and crumbling on the inside from psychic wounds too deep ever to heal, comes to stand for America. But the record is not without its characteristic humor. Springsteen's writing has seldom been as fleet ("Early north Jersey industrial skyline I'm a all/ set cobra jet creepin' through the nighttime"), and he is the only writer around who can get a good, funny love song out of a date where the lovers eat fried...
Colleagues remember Brodie for the number of his activities and droll sense of humor. "He packed enough in for two lifetimes, "MIsch said, adding that Brodie brought perspective to his work in psychiatry, a field "notoriously, lacking in common sense...
...campus the merciless vitriol of a conservative weekly has provoked an uneasy, university-wide debate about just how much free speech a civilized community can tolerate. Pervading the pages of the Dartmouth Review, founded in 1980, is a sophomoric brand of macho humor. An essay in its Oct. 18 issue spoke scornfully of a "never-never land where men are women and women are persons." The same issue contained a mock memo berating student homosexuals: "Wasn't the closet more comfortable than the trash bag? You guys could suffocate." Contends Editor in Chief E. William Cattan: "We are writing...
...turkey. Is something gnarly? That may be good or bad. But if it is mega-gnarly, that is excellent. One may leave a sorority house at U.C.L.A. to mow a burger. Slang has less ideological content now than it had in the '60s. Still, it sometimes arises, like humor, from apprehension. High school students say, "That English test really nuked me." On the other hand, in black neighborhoods of Washington, D.C., if you had a good time at a party, you dropped the bomb...