Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Each of the Vaughnums has been suppressing some secret; each ends by realizing that some seeming impossibility has come to pass. While all this adroit plotting is going on, the characters are interacting so naturally, with rowdy humor so integral to their personalities, that Lonely Street seems more a slice of life than a "well-made play." Even in the two most finely honed scenes--when Ruth and Raymond discuss why, despite their affection, they have always avoided each other, and when Miss Anna learns the truth about her parentage--Deer never allows the audience enough emotional distance to perceive...
...credit cards and pay only cash. Reformed Debtor Barbara Aissen, a 49-year-old nurse at Miami Children's Hospital, recalls her own reaction upon hearing this suggestion. Says she: "I didn't have to think about it twice. I said, 'Where's the scissors? I'll slice these cards in half right...
Nothing was to be too grand for Texas' 150th birthday, not even a visit from the Prince of Wales. And so there stood Charles last week, biting into his first taco, cutting a slice from a 90,000-lb. sesquicentennial birthday cake and receiving an 18-inch ceremonial gavel from the state legislature. The gavel, he said, was "the biggest I've ever had, which is entirely appropriate because it comes from Texas...
...swagger and flippancy of that remark were qualities, shared and multiplied among a staff of intrepid writers, that made the show into a certifiable cultural phenomenon. S.N.L. was the first network program to cut off a slice of the energy, irreverence and scapegrace spirit of rock culture. It was also the first major forum for the comedy underground that had begun to form in the late '60s. This was humor influenced by Mad magazine and the National Lampoon, Ernie Kovacs and Monty Python, William S. Burroughs and Johnny B. Goode. Under the shrewd editorial tutelage of Producer Lorne Michaels, this...
This means, for the benefit of the great unwashed who have never seen a Pudding show, that every slice of dialogue is a self-transcending attempt at stupider jokes than the ones before. And the authors have outdone themselves this year. Whether it's the Bible, Consumer Reports, or the game-show circuit, Jess Bravin and Peter Sagal have plumbed the depths of Americana, Harvardiana, banality and even hallowed Tradition to create some of the longest strings of groan-inducing one-liners in history...