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...Despite some straining this season, the writers have managed to deepen and develop their relationship without losing the comic fizz. And no other series takes more chances. The actors frequently step out of character for asides to the camera, and the show may break completely from format on a whim. One of this season's episodes featured a seven-minute Gene Kellyesque dance number. Another was an elaborate parody of The Taming of the Shrew done in Elizabethan costume and mock iambic pentameter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Moonlighting on The Edge | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

...Penn had some talent, but not enough to beat us," Costin Scalise said. "You can't win an Ivy League title on a whim...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Aquawomen Slink Penn, 90-50, Clinch Second Ivy Title in Row | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

Tell me I'm mortgaging my future on some childish whim. Tell me I'm being irresponsible and throwing all caution to the wind when I announce that I have no desire to go to work after graduation. Tell me I have no idea of the consequences that will result from my decision to blow off my future in favor of bumming around the world for no particular purpose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUFF I THINK: | 2/10/1987 | See Source »

...been delivered late, and I had to use it. I just happened to see a '50s movie with Brigitte Bardot." He is similarly resourceful about tapping into an impulse before it becomes a trend, and fearless as well as funny in his ability to meld styles to his whim and will. "This new collection of mine is the Thousand and One Nights," he explains, adding, "I've mixed the 18th century and the Ottomans." A perfect formula, it turns out, for clothes to be worn with both a slink and a smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Color of New Blood | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...Mower resident's report of the exposed asbestos took a tortuous route from North Yard Senior Advisor to Freshman Dean's Office to Yard Superintendent to Dunbar Lab three weeks later. Instead of leaving communication paths to the whim of a case-by-case piecemeal policy, the University should inform students about environmental health hazards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications Scare | 10/18/1986 | See Source »

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