Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...employed in creating the nightmare city surpasses that of Star Wars, without the razzle-dazzle light shows and battle scenes. Blade Runner may take the prize for special effects this summer, even with stiff competition from Tron and E.T. Extra-Terrest-rial. In addition, Blade Runner's throw-away humor, such as midget vandals and 21st century Coca-Cola billboard ads, provide a touch of campy humor which does help to compensate for the film's flaws...
...just this proper feeling which director Rauch tries to evoke: the emotions and the characters of the people involved. But Rauch is given so little personal material of any depth or complexity in the text, that stellar acting is the only solution. With impressive consistency, the humorous touches thrown into this updated version keep the 1935 play entertaining. Brian McCue's series of comic scenes seem to emerge directly from Auden's own witty and slightly bizarre sense of humor. And Max Cantor shines as the ridiculous subjectivist poet who tells Alan Norman that all objects exist only...
Vacation volumes mix memory, humor and suspense...
...parental crossfire caused the children to retreat into a private world of secret names and words and In jokes that nourished them until they were able to break free. Yet, in the custom of many first-generation Americans, Burton now digs at his roots with forbearance, humor and a strange affection. Judging from Burton's intriguing confessional, what saved the young Bernsteins from bitterness and obscurity was not surviving with a genius, but a collective genius for survival...
...Tsai Feng, librarian of Harvard College, describes Bond's success in bringing top collections to Harvard. "Often with donors it is his quietmanner, his deep knowledge and his caring for the books themselvesand the library in his charge "Feng adds, "It is also a gentle humor...thatis important in any career to succeed...