Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...centers around eating, sex, and her own obesity, has a unique way of taking ordinary events and turning them into cause for uproarious laughter. Snow jokes about everyday events, such as how she lies on her driver's license. "My weight on my license is my weight on the moon," she jokes...
...first 40 minutes of the show were devoted exclusively to songs from ...Nothing like the Sun, which were punctuated by Branford Marsalis' hot saxophone on "Sister Moon" and Sting's soliloquy about bad American tea and whether the Boston Tea Party had anything to do with...
WHATEVER the plot's faults may be, the film is humorous--not on a cerebral level, but it strikes a primitive chord. And though the film attempts to create meaningful metaphors (the moon and the opera), even these turn out to be comical. But it is hard to believe that 38-year-old Italian-speaking Loretta has never been to the opera before she meets Ronny and equally hard to believe that she is so touched by it (the tears positively roll down her face). The question remains--is this intended to be funny...
...white fighter could manage to win the title in the ring, whites took solace in a cinematic champ, Rocky. The current pro football season cast up another unsettling black breakthrough. Black quarterbacks for the first time started on three pro teams: Randall Cunningham for the Philadelphia Eagles, Warren Moon for the Houston Oilers and Douglas Williams for the Super Bowl-bound Washington Redskins...
...doubt years of daily hoops and playground stratagems could produce "natural" stars in the whitest suburbs too. The aspirations of ghetto youngsters, though, are distorted by another potent myth -- one that ironically will be strengthened by the success of Cunningham, Moon and Williams -- that professional sports can be a way out of poverty for a significant number of young black men. Only one of every 1,000 high school football players ever makes it to the pros -- hardly good odds, as the Greek might put it. Those searching for a better life would be well advised to pour the energy...