Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exhibition is an exploration of the role of art as merchandise and merchandise as art. Although the sheer peculiarty of the pieces can be daunting, the humor and wit apparent throughout makes it accessible to even those who cannot quite understand why basketballs should be placed in fishtanks, and why admission should be charged to see them...
Women need to show that they are capable of more than bemoaning their victimization. Why are there no political articles in the magazine? Why is there no humor? Where is the fiction? The cartoons...
Rosovsky said the Crimson editorial lacked "humility, humanity, and humor," which he called important elements of liberal education...
...cool, dark colors and loping harmonics of bebop, and especially in the laconic tempo of Gordon's speech and walk. Gordon, whose only previous movie gig was a stroll-on in the 1955 melodrama Unchained, commands the screen with the dignity of an exhausted emperor. He mines humor from his fastidious diction, has a ponderous grace and takes pauses that could drive Pinter nuts with impatience. No trained actor could have delivered this performance. For it is not so much a performance as an inspired riff on the theme of native sons abroad, talking to each other in a language...
...writer Clive Barker (The Inhuman Condition) has been gaining in reputation and sales, and King has become something of a cheerleader: "You read him with a book in one hand and an airsick bag in the other. That man is not fooling around. He's got a sense of humor, and he's not a dullard. He's better than I am now. He's a lot more energetic." So King is not merely posing at poolside when he promises that It will be his last horror novel: "For now, as far as the Stephen King Book-of-the-Month...