Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MOUNT THE RAMPARTS! FIGHT CALIFORNICATION! exhorts the headline of a recent Watson tirade. The columnist is the founder of Lesser Seattle, an antibooster organization that seeks to "keep the bastards out" by exaggerating the city's negative characteristics, such as its notorious rainfall. The organization's slogan: "Have a Nice Day -- Somewhere Else!" Watson insists that his crusade is tongue in cheek, but many newly arrived Californians take less satirical slurs to heart. "Our very first day the Welcome Wagon lady called on us and told us that people here think Californians fail to recycle, pollute the air, ruin natural...
...bring the ghetto to the suburbs and the suburbs to the ghetto. I want ((rapper)) Tone-Loc and Major Ferguson, Fergie's dad, on the same couch. Most white people have never been to a party at a black person's house. I hope they say, 'This one looks nice -- maybe...
There is no set agenda for next month's get-together aboard U.S. and Soviet warships in the Mediterranean, but much is at stake, including Eastern Europe's future. -- Emigrants from California have Seattle shouting, "Have a nice day -- somewhere else...
Bruce (Pier Carlo Talenti) has a problem. His relationship with his gay lover, Bob (Andres Irlando), isn't satisfying, so he places a personal ad in the hopes of meeting a nice female companion. Prudence (Patricia Goldman) answers the ad, but becomes a bit disconcerted when Bruce openly admires her breasts, announces that he is bisexual and cries at the first sign of rejection. The initial encounter ends badly, and both rush to their analysts in an effort to find out what went wrong...
...already overblown elements. Hernandez's bubble-blowing, Snoopy-wielding analyst comes off well the first time, but a constant repetition of the same sight gags and crazy word substitutions (Hernandez says "porpoise" when she means "patient" at least six times) rapidly becomes unconvincing. Some subtlety would have been nice; we don't need to see Hernandez in a pink nightgown with a teddy to know that her behavior is childish...