Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adaptation of Saul Bellow's 1956 novella Seize the Day stands apart from the usual run of prestige TV drama in several respects. First, for its unrelenting bleakness: the only possible relief from Tommy's mounting misfortunes is a bitter laugh at their Job-like extravagance. Then, for its particularity: the movie is a vivid portrait of a fortyish Jewish man on Manhattan's Upper West Side in the mid-1950s, yet it refuses to promulgate a larger message about Jews, New York City or life in the '50s. And finally, for the very fact that it was made. Despite...
...Texans, criminals, Mexicans and innocent bystanders get shot. Half the time characters fire upon people they've already killed just to make sure the corpses don't spring to life in Day Of The Dead-fashion. And gradually, the audience gets the point of this film and begins to laugh out loud...
...Suite Dreams, Jeff Yang '89 acts on the misguided notion that turning California Suite, Simon's four-part laugh riot, into a shorter two-part comedy will add some missing dimension. Yang adds eight characters and connects two unrelated segments, but he can't keep his final product from reeking of Simonesque one-liners and contrived Love Boat-type situations. The hard-working cast simply cannot overcome the triteness of the dialogue...
...hour session, in fact, even those who were inclined to just stand and laugh were showing improvement, although some were still confusing the swing with the tango or the rhumba...
...Ronald McDonald and his fans may get the last laugh after all. The world's largest food-service company (1986 profits of $480 million on sales of $12.4 billion) is showing that it can be far more aggressive, imaginative and socially savvy than almost anyone has given it credit for. McDonald's is now trimming the fat and shaking the salt from its food, installing sleek outlets in U.S. airports and hospitals, taking its burgers to such far-flung locales as Yugoslavia and Guam and serving as a leading U.S. employer of minorities and the elderly. Thanks to its current...