Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BECOME FASHIONABLE to make fun of Andy Rooney. It was only a matter of time, really, before the Saturday Night Lives and Second City Televisions started honing in on him. That carefully cluttered desk and contrived homespun drawl make him an almost irresistably easy target for parody. And the subjects he covers on his weekly blurb at the end of the CBS news show "60 Minutes" range from the obvious and dull to the obtuse and dull. People who think Andy Rooney is really funny are the kind of people who read Erma Bombeck, people who subscribe to Good Housekeeping...
...Light in the Attic, Silverstein (1) 2. Cosmos, Sagan (2) 3. The Lord God Made Them All, Herriot (3) 4. Richard Simmons' Never-Say-Diet Book, Simmons (4) 5. A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney, Rooney (5) 6. The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2, Jenkins 7. Pathfinders, Sheehy (7) 8. Miss Piggy's Guide to Life, Piggy with Beard 9. Betty Crocker's Microwave Cookbook 10. Presidential Anecdotes, Boiler
Nice thoughts and horse racing do not always go together as well as they do in a Mickey Rooney script. Maybe because so many impressions are formed at the movies, horse racing is romanticized. The picture of Mickey and Elizabeth Taylor whispering in their pets' ears to go faster neglects the fact of a lot of rough little rogues cursing and beating the horses' rumps with sticks. During Spectacular Bid's stirring three-year-old season (1979), just when Bid's teen-age jockey Ron Franklin was about to be mistaken for Mickey, Franklin hopped down...
Four freshmen--Paul Guay (6-8-14), Tim Army (4-6-10), Steve Rooney (4-7-11) and Rich Costello (4-6-10)--have cracked the top seven in the Friars' scoring column. Although the lines have been juggling a bit, a result of the four-game absence of super-forward Gates Orlando (56 points last year), the first three generally play as a line...
...Taneyev, the tone sounds tinny, possibly as a result of a poor pressing, but the timing compensates. An emphasis on timing is the most important characteristic of the 1980s, at least according to Mickey Rooney. For instance, it's time for "Mickey Rooney macarooney," he claims. In a similar vein, timing and tempo and rhythm can make up for poor intonation (what happens if you play out of tune), harshness of tone and lack of musical expressiveness, which occurs when performers forget to write their emotions in performance on flashcards to be held up by page turners when appropriate...