Word: sights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dances past them with more energy than an outlawed crap game. The entire cast's over-the-top cheeziness, along with a combination of talent rarely seen in one production, makes every single character in the show so ridiculous and lovable that the audience adores each of them on sight. Oh, yeah--and they can sing and dance...
While many students say the topical organization is interesting, others complain that they lose sight of the big picture when they study works of art in non-sequential order...
Which brings us to the argument that the show's success is somehow dependent on all-male casting. Believing instead that the show's attractiveness is based largely on the polished talent displayed, I suggest that its humor arises chiefly from six elements: transvestism, sight gags, word play, non sequitors, wit and sexual humor...
...nearly impossible to imagine that it was less than 60 years ago, in 1939, when David Sarnoff told a crowd of curious viewers, "Now we add sight to sound." Sarnoff went on to say, "It is with a feeling of humbleness that I come to this moment of announcing the birth in this country of a new art so important in its implications that it is bound to affect all society. It is an art which shines like a torch of hope in the troubled world. It is a creative force which we must learn to utilize for the benefit...
...these things are natural. Bringing over cookies is the sign of utmost respect and sincere wishes for someone to feel better, to celebrate their birthday or to recover from wisdom-tooth surgery that makes cookie consumption impossible. From there, one builds an appreciation to the point where the sight alone of the cookie in the box--an island of sweetness and familiarity in the harsh, inedible world--is enough to drive one to finish a paper. That is beginning to understand the essence of the cookie, the majestic raspberry square...