Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...GREAT wisdom, Friel eventually turns the tables upon Joe. Having offended Mag into stony silence, Joe tries desperately to win back her favor. These moments provide Carlos with fine comic material as he jumps from one impersonation to another, from one deliciously wicked private joke to the next. Both actors sustain their own extended monologues beautifully, but, just as important, they also convey a great depth of attachment and intimacy whenever Mag and Joe are reconciled...
Umberto Eco's novel was a deliciously complex academician's joke: a multiple- murder mystery set in the Middle Ages and starring a Sherlockian monk with the mind-set of a modern semiotician. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud's pale "palimpsest" of the novel opts instead for rolling around in the muck, blood and superstitions of primitive societies -- a sort of Quest for Friar. Annaud goes about his task with the self-satisfied air of an anthropology professor shocking the freshmen out of their complacency. His reversal of the tale's priorities dulls its point and dims the mature, intelligent presence...
Sitting in their stone-walled shelters, the guerrillas joke with insouciance while sipping tea and munching on bread and grapes. When an enemy shell goes spectacularly awry, they exchange gibes about the enemy's marksmanship. Near misses evoke nods and grins of appreciation...
...community, but they are advantages which you can enjoy only if you are living in the house. For 15 Eliot and Winthrop sophomores settling in for a second year in the Yard, the house system is a cruel farce. One Wigglesworth sophomore resident thought his room assignment was a joke, but there's nothing funny about the housing problems that plague the College...
Perhaps the problem lies in the fact that this is, basically, a one joke movie. After all, as soon as Julius (played by Heiner Lauterbach) moves out on his wife and in with her lover, you can predict most of what happens. (In case you can't, I'm certainly not going to tell...