Word: lightering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rita Rudner's wide-eyed, lighter-than-air delivery brings the news that "men with pierced ears are better prepared for marriage -- they've experienced pain and bought jewelry...
...Live: While a boxing match was almost breaking out on one side of the field, a UConn radio announcer was capturing the lighter side of the game on the other. The announcer compared swerving corner kicks to Frank Viola curveballs and, capturing the tension of the game following a near miss by a Harvard shooter, declared, "Huskies fans can exhale...
Brooks' story goes a little lighter on musicology and a little heavier on personal drama. Black, who writes or co-writes most of his tunes, seems to save himself for his music. Brooks, who co-wrote only three of the cuts on his new second album, No Fences, is more actor than writer; he knows how to put some spin on the standard bio. "Not knowin' nothin' about a lot of stuff, that's me," he says, before launching into a sketch of his college experience ("I was a javelin thrower; at least I wore a uniform that said...
...Sherry used to be sort of daring," says Trumball Professor of American History Donald H. Fleming. But he says the aspiring academicians of the 1990s, health conscious as they are, have moved onto a lighter fare...
...Freshman's lighter setting, however, Brando's tremendous ability becomes a bull in a china shop. The movie calls for deft direction to avoid trampling the film's fragile comedic atmosphere. Reigning in Brando under such stringent tolerances would be a challenge for even the most accomplished director, a task clearly beyond the abilities of Bergman. He might be comforted by the knowledge that he practically doomed himself to failure right from the outset. Bergman made the already difficult task of executing an intelligent farce of The Godfather even more trying by casting in The Freshman's piviotal role...