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...film's humor is as stale as the characterization. There's a bit about tickets to the Ice Capades. That's funny, you see, because nobody likes the Ice Capades. Then there's the Callaghan family business: estate furniture--which spawns the movie's funniest quip: "We're in the estate furniture business. We buy furniture from dead people...
Remember the urban legend in which the response "Why not?" to the philosophical query "Why?" earned some smart-ass an A? When someone attacks you with the ridiculous question, "Why fashion?", do as I do and quip back the correct three-word response: "Why not, darling...
From the moment Willum walks in the door, his only concerns are figuring out how to get in Tansy's pants and how to design a building for a client. But after he settles down, the arriving guests quicken the pace. While the first act seems to flow from quip to quip, the second act is hurried: the clipped delivery leads the characters to overcompensate by projecting their voices rather than their wits. Had the characters been edgier, The Nerd could have suggested the macabre tones of "Neighbors" or an episode of "The Twilight Zone," but the play is strictly...
...price rises down to 5% a month; in January, after inflation shot to 12%, he began talking in terms of 8% to 9%. Then two weeks ago, while attending the annual World Economic Forum at the Swiss resort of Davos, his pledge of 18% prompted an exasperated Fyodorov to quip that "after the three-hour flight back to Moscow, there will probably be a different figure...
...policy because reformers have been battling conservatives for two years and have been unable to implement a strong reform program. Third, Western help never came and never helped cushion the change. ((U.S. Deputy Secretary of State)) Strobe Talbott did a terrible disservice to the reformers with his glib quip that there had been too much shock and not enough therapy. That was not U.S. policy, but boy, did it hurt Russian reformers badly...