Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Strauss spends hours a day on the phone, staying in touch with his network of friends, his cello-like Texas drawl coming through as either a low, world- weary growl or a tone much higher on the scale when he's angry or excited. His conversations are laced with humor or biting sarcasm. "Listen, you sumbitch," he barks to a friend, "you've got a problem, and I'm going to tell you how to solve...
...recall that the Lampoon's publications and its extra-journalistic activities contained personal attacks on faculty members and students, as well as jibes aimed at minorities and women. Perhaps the Lampoon has changed its style in recent years, but the occasional copy that I come across suggests that such humor has become institutionalized...
...having a sensitive, if occasionally melodramatic cast. Lisa Langford is is both clever and witty as Dr. Livingstone, the psychiatrist assigned to Agnes' case and probably one of the more endearing chainsmokers ever to grace the stage. She becomes the one reliable narrator in the play, a paragon of humor and good sense in an otherwise unrelievedly gothic atmosphere of religious excess. Her exploration of Agnes' past and her search for an alternate ending becomes that of the audience. She is reality personified, confronting and dissecting the ideal...
...that she chooses to be quite so tense throughout the entire play. Subdued histrionics are difficult to sustain at the best of times. Fortunately for all, she occasionally drops the tortured smile. Her discussion with Langford of the possible smoking habits of the saints is an oasis of subdued humor in the otherwise shrill uniformity of her portrayal...
ECAC hockey coaches would be the authors of similar empty volumes if their collective humor and philosophical insight were compiled. How dull are some of the league's coaches...