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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very carefully." Says Cronin: "From what I've seen of him, Iacocca has a sense of humor. God help him if he doesn't." Cronin believes that young executives who show no humor are missing an important lesson. Success in any field depends on influencing others, and wit is still one of the best tools around for doing that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Laughing Matter | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...poured into Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera house last Friday was in for a surprise. What were those subway-style graffiti doing all over the proscenium arch? What kind of message was it, spelling out the names of Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc and Maurice Ravel, composers of elegance and wit? And what was all the barbed wire doing out there on the naked stage, not to mention the forlorn, bullet-torn French flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Vivid Gallic Trio at the Met | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...whole, extremely good. They help make more than usually bearable the Pudding Show plot, which--no matter where or when it is set--always seems to come out the same: wicked, chesty baritone schemes to murder or domineer others as air-head, goldilocks daughter falls in love with dim-wit tenor. Serfs Up!'s Monty-Python-and-the-Holy-Grail setting--with dozens of "thou's" thrown in--provides plenty of comic soil for puns to take root in; but it doesn't materially affect the stock Pudding plot--even if there is a peasant revolution, nasal lords and ladies...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Roar of the Greasepaint | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

...professor, a good lecture is one in which the subtiest relationships are revealed with wit of the most refined, penetrating sort; where all the points of view are caressed and molded into a unity that hits with a little pop of clarity and he goes away feeling smug...

Author: By Jeffrey Zax, | Title: Feeling Caught in the Middle | 2/5/1981 | See Source »

...explain the flaw of this otherwise worthy production: it is not fun. The scenery is stunning, the direction fine, and Sarah Badel and John Cleese are engaging as Katharina and Petruchio, the shrew and her tamer. But more might have been expected of Miller, who showed his lively wit in Beyond the Fringe, and Cleese, mainspring of the Monty Python troupe. They may be doing a play from the 16th century, but they need not have left their sense of humor in the 20th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Midwinter Night's Dreams | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

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