Word: wifely
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...produced by Premier, as every awaited East Coast comeback seems to require, but "Back Up Off the Wall" had a beat bordering on commercial, and it was still slammin', starting with the hook: "Mad 'cause the life I lead / twice your speed / brown-skinned mami that's the wife I need / light that weed / front, n*gga might just bleed / trying to ball with y'all but I might just flee." Not exactly the moralistic Brand Nubian of yesteryear, but how hot is the triple-syllable rhyme scheme...
Robin Williams, fresh from his Academy Award, again leaves his comedic training behind him in his role as Chris Nielsen, who dies in a car accident and must travel from heaven to hell to save his wife (Annabella Sciorra) after she commits suicide in her despair over his death. Although the plot is the standard quest situation, it demands that the film deal with the question of religion, God and the afterlife. Somehow they drop God from the plot. They're good. How's God just going to be absent from heaven? A better question is how Robin Williams...
...doesn't an Italian woman cheat on her husband?" he asks, confounding his predominantly female Jewish audience. "Because if she did, WHAM!" he adds with a gesture to match. "But a Jewish wife," he continues, "has nothing to lose. She cheats on her husband and what happens--he runs and call his mother." The audience, of course, roars its approval and the consensus of nodding heads makes it clear that no one is taking offense. He proceeds along similar lines for most of the show: "There are no Jewish athletes. All we had was Mark Spitz. He took one swim...
This is Fineberg's first trip to thePhilippines, and he and his wife, AssistantClinical Professor of Medicine Mary E. Wilson,will also spend time being ordinary tourists...
...revolvearound a climax that estranges its main characterfrom the reader by making him the subject of twoother people's conversation, Murray'sphilosophical effervescence is a rare source ofenergy. Yet, it cloys. For example, after a longdiscussion of how Ira's Estonian nurse used topoke fun at his dainty wife by daintily giving Irablow jobs, Murray mildly pontificates:"Revenge...nothing so big in people and nothing sosmall nothing so audaciously creative in even themost ordinary as the workings of revenge...