Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aaron's direction is so unimaginative and deliberate that one gets the feeling that Maxie is a television sitcom. In fact, there are awkward pauses after many jokes, as if Aaron was expecting a laugh track to be put in. Even the soundtrack sounds like something from TV, resembling the Mary Tyler Moore theme when the mood is happy, and the MASH theme when it is bittersweet...
...girl and her friend, the shoes are an event. They fall about each other, laugh and shiver, hold one another. When they've finished they bum Djakarta cigarettes from a nearby skinhead. The girl turns back to me, looking bored. Her eyes, brown and indolent, hover above and beyond, taking in the passersby, the shopfronts, the traffic, her friends...
...laugh...
...clammy mist of Alice's adoration, yields an acid portrait: "His style was to use the familiar phrases of the socialist ) lexicon, but as though he had only just that moment discovered them, so that when he began, there was often a moment when people showed a tendency to laugh." But it becomes increasingly difficult to care about Alice and her confederates. They are looking for trouble, and the novel shows them stumbling erratically into it. The only question left hanging is whether they will harm innocent bystanders...
...maze and turns human babies into goblins. Most of the other characters are part of a new Hensonagerie that includes Ludos, Wild Things and a wise man with a bird growing out of his head. All delightfully different. "Henson's understanding of what children want to see and laugh at is quite eerie," says the pop star. "I've never worked with an eight-year-old director before. It's wonderful...