Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...naughty ends? Not this time. The scene is from Blondes vs Brunettes, an ABC-TV special to be aired next week, which features TV's brunet queen meanie, Collins, and Morgan Fairchild, 34, a blond TV vixen. In one skit they also played sweet post-60 grandmothers who toast each other over tea. Amid the treacle, it is reassuring to remember that the two femmes fatales still have plenty of that good old delicious malicious left in them...
...final resort, down to a ridiculously low figure. All this is done to raise the participation rate--the percentage of seniors who contribute, not necessarily the absolute amount collected. This year's goal is 84 percent; and the House with the highest rate will receive a free champagne toast...
...Deal liberalism or to embrace the cynical neo-conservative backlash. Hart is, quite simply, too intelligent to embrace the well-meaning but unrealistic proposals of Mondale and McGovern. But, unlike Glenn, he does not believe that the Democrats should try to regain the White House by becoming milk toast Republicans. We also support Hart because he is now the only man who can send Reagan back to his ranch for good...
...from the film's opening scenes, where Sarandon burns toast and Dreyfuss battles with his talking scale, The Buddy System leaves little to the audience's imagination. We know before Wheaton ever meets his ideal father that Dreyfuss will play Daddy Warbucks and take the kid under his wing, and that Sarandon will become his new playmate. The plot ostensibly thickens when Dreyfuss's old girlfriend--a mindless blonde who parrots '60s cliches--returns. But the audience has little doubt that everything will somehow work out when the three are seen happily planting tomatoes in the garden...
...film's failure to transcend conventional stereotype is as cumbersome as its reliance on stock gags and "cute" statements. Director Jordan's idea of humor--falling brooms and burning toast--is admittedly a sign of domestic chaos, but certainly an insufficient ploy to keep the audience in hysterics. Similarly, Wheaton's gratuitous use of slang phrases like "shit" and "knocked up" quickly becomes sophomoric and intellectually insulting to the audience...