Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard alumni have long said they're proud of their alma mater's enthusiasm for public service, and now a group of them are trying to bring that spirit to New York City...
...ashes, a renaissance of sorts. For the 1986-87 season, Michaels pieced together a cast that finally took hold and is now starting its fourth season together. Only one of them -- the silky, moonfaced Jon Lovitz, creator of the pathological-liar character -- seems to capture the old spirit: like Belushi or Aykroyd or Radner, he gets laughs by simply showing up onstage. Still, there's plenty of talent on hand: Dana Carvey, a pixieish comic with devilish impressions of George Bush and Jimmy Stewart; Victoria Jackson, a ditsily appealing blond; and the sparkling, versatile Jan Hooks. If none seem destined...
...DYLAN: OH MERCY (Columbia). He started the decade with a great album (1981's Shot of Love), and closes it with another. The record is structured like an intimate revival meeting between Dylan and listener: there are messages of devotion and political sermons; parables of the spirit and love songs; and, in Shooting Star, a luminous benediction. Dylan continues to make heavy demands -- these ten songs are the most intensely introspective work anyone has done in rock this year -- but asks only what he brings from himself: some reckless imagination, a sense of playful mystery and a full measure...
...same imaginative spirit animates his pursuit of a serial killer who is stalking womanizers (nice reversal of expectations there). Keller and his partner (John Goodman) place ads in the personal columns of an alternative newspaper and start dating the respondents. Needless to say, the likeliest suspect (Ellen Barkin) is also the best bet to comfort our hero...
...things from 10,000 years ago," he says, "it becomes tricky." Another potential problem: misidentified remains of one tribe might be returned to descendants of a group that was historically its mortal enemy. Beyond that, scholars note, tribes varied widely in their treatment of the dead; for some, the spirit left the remains, while for others, the spirit is still with the bones...