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Word: sweetly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trick never came, although a sweet give-and-take with Murphy notched Vukonich an assist on Harvard's late-game insurance goal...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Kirkland G-14 Scoring Race | 11/28/1989 | See Source »

...role he tries to play here: a psychopathic hit man. He is not a good enough actor for this particular assignment, nor has he the skill as writer and director to use cold-blooded murder (three times) as the topper for gag sequences. Once or twice his former sweet hipness glimmers through, and he has written a funny bit for his pal Arsenio Hall, playing a man on a murderous crying jag. But mostly Harlem Nights offers a depressing answer to that not entirely pressing question, "Will success spoil Eddie Murphy?" It looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Murphy's One-Man Band | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

ADMINISTRATION: Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Martha Clark, Helga Halaki, Tosca LaBoy, Katharine K. McNevin, Barbara Milberg, Teresa D. Sedlak, Deborah R. Slater, Rafael Soto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead Vol.134, No. 22 NOVEMBER 27, 1989 | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...Rachel Sweet is a baby-voiced comedian with jet-black hair piled high in a ponytail that makes her look like Pebbles Flintstone. She used to sing in a + new-wave rock band and now studies art history at Columbia University. But starting this week, she will be spending her evenings curled up on a sofa in a Manhattan TV studio, making wisecracks about the single life in New York City. Typical bit: Rachel charts the differences between a guy she dated named David Sims and former President Franklin D. Roosevelt. "Has fancy cigarette holder. F.D.R.: yes. Sims: no. Tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Round-The-clock Yucks | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...ironic humor suggests a David Letterman filtered through the pages of Spy magazine. But Sweet represents something different for TV, a new breed of entertainer known as the comedy jockey. Viewers will learn what she does on Wednesday, when the Comedy Channel, a new 24-hour cable service from HBO, goes on the air. It is one of two all-comedy networks getting set to square off on a new battlefield of yucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Round-The-clock Yucks | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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