Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...voice belonged to Randy Taylor, Harvard's 6-ft., 2-in., 215-lb. senior defenseman. The plea was both a pleasant warning to the hockey players cum fumbling dancers and a description of the kind of influence Taylor has had on his team...
...novel the reader is rudely awakened from his pleasant position in front of the fire, curled up with this good book, to discover that what he has been reading is a complete lie. The novel by Roth is a book about Nathan writing a novel...
Roth is alienated both from the old country of Eastern Europe that spawned his immigrant parents and from the pleasant diaspora, non-tenemant nest that American Jews have created for themselves. The novel's homebase is this world. Nathan lives in New York City and his brother in South Orange, a suburb of Newark, where the two brothers grew up. Roth has written about these places before. His first great novel, Goodbye, Columbus, takes place in Irvington, New Jersey, a city that borders on Newark. Roth himself grew up in Newark and Irvington...
...nerve. It tries to break from the morning mold but retains enough Today-like elements to make the entertainment features jarring. Another sort of host -- a folksy Arthur Godfrey type, perhaps -- might have made the format more palatable. Even Smith and Hartley could eventually relax and turn into pleasant morning companions. Right now they are working too hard at chemistry to notice that the ingredients are not jelling...
While Allen is not breaking new ground with these episodes, he does manage to capture the humorous and outlandish spirit of the era. The individual vignettes are at least a pleasant release from the overwrought sentimentalism of the family scenes...