Word: winked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Principal songwriter and vocalist Martin Gore refuses to take himself or his songs seriously; each cut has a knowing wink to the wise that the song is a calculated appeal to the lowest common denominator...
Rather than alternating between sexual allusions and sexual illusions in the style of the generic teen flick. Reiner uses the cross country trip scenario as a chance to wink, gently but snidely, at the void that is Middle American culture In smaller but still delightful doses. Reiner offers the same subtle satire that made This is Spinal Tap! the best comedy of last year...
...more specifically about this ambiance, he says that Tommy's is a place for friendships, not for pick-ups. "But sometimes it's crowded and you're sitting mext to a woman--then if it happens, to happens. If it doesn't, that's cool," he says with a wink...
...succeeded wonderfully. See Eddie pretend he is a very important journalist, terrorizing a snooty hotel into giving him a room despite his lack of a reservation. See him, a moment later, impersonate a delivery boy soft-shoeing his way past a wary receptionist. And watch closely, for in the wink of a camera's eye he is going to be a furious Customs inspector whose bite is worse than his bark. Or a homosexual lisping his way past a posh club's maître d' with a particularly mad invention. Murphy exudes the kind of cheeky...
...always preferred it." Then just about everyone shows up in Montana, where Louisa falls for General George Armstrong Custer, and Charlotte dallies with a Dietrichesque saloon singer who is really a man. They all die at Little Big Horn and go to heaven. And in the wink of a REM, the dream is over...