Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ultimately, Amazon Women on the Moon may be as socially unredeemable as the television and the TV watchers it pokes fun at. Still, it is extremely funny and worth seeing, though perhaps one should wait until it comes out on videocassete in order to watch it where it would be most effective...
...woman to dancing with joy in the middle of the night over the haphazardous flight of a distant ball." It is also about hope, a necessity for disappointed fans. Especially for long-frustrated Red Sox fans, who after a tough season now cry out, with complete faith, "wait 'til next year...
Cosby developed his style by studying such comics as Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, whose 2,000-Year-Old Man routine "taught me that if the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff." Among his early routines was a famous bit in which God tries to convince a skeptical Noah that he should build an ark. But Cosby soon gravitated toward a more fertile subject: his childhood. In vivid, richly textured narratives, he told of cutting up with neighborhood characters like Old Weird Harold and Fat Albert...
That chaos is everywhere apparent. Though Cubans have to pay only about 10% of their salary for rent -- often barely $10 a month -- they must spend twice as much just to buy an imported deck of playing cards. Block-long lines of people wait nine hours through the night and six hours more to get into the Centro department store, still commonly known by its prerevolutionary name, Sears, where government surplus items are sold at extortionate prices ($2 for a small bar of chocolate). "We have some good news and some bad news," runs the local joke. "The bad news...
...Some experts remain cautious. Says William Brennan of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: "It would be dumb to make up my mind before the results from the field are all in." He should not have long to wait. Last month a DC-8 and a converted U-2 spyplane began flights under and through the hole in the most intensive attempt to date to pin down a detailed model of the ozone depletion process. Preliminary results should be announced later this month...