Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost naughty syndrome," Mark advised, is another way of getting kids to laugh. "Certain key words sound naughty to kids. Underwear. Kids think it is really funny. Or the puppet could say, 'Kissywooooooooo.' Anything with kiss in it. They're starting to think about boy-girl things." Mark went on to talk about mapping and diagramming jokes and planning ad libs until it was time for Jeff Dunham to speak. Jeff talked about comedy writing, and he said $ soundly that if you could create a joke a day pretty soon you would have a routine, much as it is said...
...complain to me. You're doing all the talking." Moreover, "that line has got me out of a corner many times." Directly, Bill Boley demonstrated what he could do with his voice. He did dog sniffs, dog barks, dog pants, peacock calls, door slams ("The shut is a gun sound. I let it go through the nose a little bit") and window blinds being raised and lowered. He did everything...
...hard palate, the teeth and the tongue. You can say the letter d without moving your lips, but you cannot say the letter b. Nearly anyone could be a ventriloquist if one's dummy talked like this: "How 'dout a dottle of deer?" Substituting a barely perceptible th sound, Isaacson said "Boston baked beans" without moving his lips, and you could have sworn you heard the b's. People scribbled...
...police drama that brought the genre a gritty new look, bustling narratives and a recognition that police officers are adults, not cartoon heroes. The other, Michael Mann, gave the formula another new twist a few seasons later with Miami Vice, which used flashy visuals and a thumping rock sound track to transform familiar cops-and-robbers tales into moody morality plays...
...show has a grim, pounding energy, a bracing sound track that mixes Todd Rundgren with early rock (Del Shannon has rerecorded his hit Runaway for the show's theme) and an impeccable cast that seems to have emerged from the street, not a Hollywood casting call. Mann and Director Abel Ferrara indulge in few of the stylistic flourishes of Miami Vice but revel in the shadowy bars and gleaming tail fins of their seedy milieu...