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Decades later, a letter can make you laugh or weep all over again. But a phone call? It's nothing but a few hundred million electrons, shot through a wire and then dissolved into a sea of disorganized memory. A letter lasts. You can read it thousands of time, savoring the prose...

Author: By Liam T. A. ford, | Title: Mail Dominance | 5/17/1991 | See Source »

...script is updated to include profanity (at times it seems every fourth word the Jets speak is "fuck") which soon becomes grating. Pop culture references are good for a cheap laugh, but the "Nintendoes" and "Telemundos" are more cutesy than clever. Making the Jets co-ed adds an interesting sexual dynamic and some talent to the Jets line-up (particularly an electric Eisa Davis as A-rab, the "cool" Jet). But, even today, there are very few female gang members...

Author: By Elijah T. Siegler, | Title: Modern Accents on the West Side | 5/3/1991 | See Source »

...This college is 70 percent Democrats," he said. "If you ask them if Jamie Harmon is their leader, they'll probably laugh...

Author: By Douglas M. Kaden, | Title: Harmon Takes National Post | 4/25/1991 | See Source »

...something like 250 lbs., with a shiny, shaved skull and a neck wider than his head, including his ears. He says coming into the ring too slim would be a mistake. He's teasing. He does that a lot, making it easy for reporters to laugh. Call him a fatted calf, call him a freak show, and he chuckles. "I like being me," he says now. "I have gotten rid of all problems like leaves hanging off a tree. If an old man like me can come back from the dead, then that is a victory for mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Coming Back to Me Now! | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

...joke is too broad, no character too outlandish, no plot twist too cloying. When a four-year-old in Full House is told she can be a batboy on the Little League team, you can bet she'll come downstairs wearing a Batman costume (and get a big laugh for it). On the morning of his wedding day, one of the three dads sneaks off to go skydiving (why not?). He gets stuck in a tree, falls into a truckload of tomatoes and arrives hours late for the awww-inspiring ceremony. A better response is arrrgghh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revenge of The Nerd | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

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