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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...

Author: By Dante E.A. Ramos, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The First Time: Please Be Gentle With Me | 12/15/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bomb Over Broadway | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Steven V. Mazie, | Title: I'm Not Reading | 5/1/1991 | See Source »

...never been sillier...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over | 4/12/1991 | See Source »

...right thing. But reality and horror have not been rescinded. All killing is unclean. It has upon it a stain that technology cannot annul or override. Americans are not omnipotent, not all virtuous, they should remind themselves, they do not bestride the world. Vainglory is one of the sillier postures: it invariably precedes the rude awakening. It is the sort of whooping glee that, in Daffy Duck cartoons, goeth before the fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Moment for the Dead | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

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