Word: sillier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foresee problems of propriety in letting a man bunk with her boy. Then again, the rich are different, and these are rich, nearly famous people. The mother's second husband is a rental-car magnate. The father is co-author of the script for one of the summer's sillier comedies, and supposedly the idea for the film was suggested by the boy himself. In one aspect, though, this brood is like many other postnuclear families: last week a judge ordered the father to pay $68,804 in overdue child support...
Your first go at anything new never turns out exactly as you expect it to. It's always a little sloppier, a little clumsier, a little sillier than you expect...
...glamorous set of associates and the marital troubles of Nick and Nora Charles (Barry Bostwick and Joanna Gleason), the detectives who are on the case. But Laurents seems to have had trouble taking either half of the story seriously. The mystery investigation involves a series of pantomime flashbacks, each sillier-looking than the one before. The title characters are written so carelessly that in the opening scene one cannot be sure whether they are newly wed or suffering from seven- year itch. Their marital discord flares up out of nowhere and ends just as abruptly. The wife's flirtation with...
...Week Reading Period is the one of the sillier parts of Harvard's silly academic calendar. No one, save a few of the nerdier members of SONG, studies for finals in the first week of reading period. That's because no one needs 14 days to study for four tests. Finals just aren't that hard...
...never been sillier...