Word: schtick
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Matthews’ schtick is impatience. He whines, shouts and questions away, cutting off guests when he gets bored of their answers...
...inspire legitimate laughs, even if they’re hardly high-brow. Less than offensive to the jaded college ear,€Triumph sounds more like a foul-mouthed resident of a retirement home than anything else. Diehard fans are the only listeners who should bother fetching this schtick...
...matter how tired their schtick looks on paper, the band does have a knack for turning out energetic, compulsively danceable numbers. For all Ima Robot’s gimmickry, there’s a desperation to “Scream” and a coked-out lunacy to “Song #1” that make you forget that these Reaganomic moves have already been mimed by every “dance-punk” troupe this side of Park Slope...
...color of his skin. Rush Limbaugh was stupid to bring the issue of race into question when discussing a player's ability. Donovan McNabb is a great player. Period. Rush had no choice but to resign. He's a fraud out of school discussing football. He should schtick to politics. Mike LaNoue Michigan...
...cheap laughs at every turn. Example: Jeff, the cutely self-aware nincompoop, doesn't want to betray his boss's confidence, so he tells the whole story to Dawn by disguising it, ineptly, as a "hypothetical" case, a ruse she sees through in about five seconds. Pure sitcom schtick - like too much in Lonergan's work...