Word: humourously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...muddy and dubiously humorous, Taming shares with The Merchant of Venice a modern stigma for its Elizabethean prejudices. If, as some feminists suggest, pornography is anything that shows women in a degrading light, Taming would rank up where with Debbie does Dallas. A large part of the play's humour concerns the attempt of a man to turn his new wife into the slave of his will, not a very funny subjects to the feminists fighting for the positive portrayal of women...
...leads are probably the best thing about the film, with Nathalie Baye particularly standing out as Nicole. Baye, remembered for an excellent performance in The Return of Martin Guerre. plays another ambiguous heroine. She infuses the whore-with-a-heart-of-gold with a mixture of toughness, humour, and catlike grace. She is actually believable as the prostitute who makes 30,000 a month while at the same time deeply in love...
...Cynicism," wrote H.G. Wells, "is humour in ill-health." By this scale, "Washingtoon"'s humor is on the brink of terminal cancer. Like his colleagues at The Voice and every other American of liberal bent, Stamaty demonstrates that survival that which has become vital in America in the '80s; cynicism...
...standard pattern goes like this: one member steps forward and introduces the next number with a few words of smirking humour (a word the Kroks almost demand to be spelled with a "u." The American way would seem somehow inappropriate). An example of the patter from their record...
...song, of course, is "When you wore a tulip," in the standard '40s boy-meets-girl mode. So it goes, the five-part harmonies and do-wahs piercing the night air with a jovial and slightly condescending good humour...