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...afraid of emotion. The strongest episodes are those (like "Lisa's Substitute," "Homer Alone," "Like Father, Like Clown" and "Bart the Lover") that reveal the bedrock fondness, desperation and loyalty that bond this or any other frazzled clan. A viewer can feel awe at the show's cascading wit and still purr at the sweet, deep sentiment. Hail, Simpsons! May you live another 100 episodes at the same apex of quality...
...Cave outside the carpenter Center." The installation includes the random inflation of automobile airbags. To quote the Arts First booklet, "it is though that the airbag in its deployment and in its resting state implies not only matters of technological significance but also issues of human vulnerability." To wit, we must ask, "Who thinks this?" and "Who thinks this stuff up?" and Does this count as frisky...
...epidemic of cynicism passing for wit has overtaken fashion as designers work harder at being funny than at crafting beautiful clothes. There has always been a theatrical side to fashion, a love of the extreme. But lately the over-the-top gesture is usurping the real thing. A decent goal of female clothing design is to enhance a woman, but styles in the past few seasons have often made a grotesque distortion of the natural silhouette. Interruption in the form of extravagant collars, peplums and other superfluous add-ons to skirts has replaced any graceful flow. Having peaked several years...
...year-old Londoner, all beguiling smile and self-deprecating wit, Grant is the leading man of the moment. Four Weddings, a British romantic comedy, has become a surprise hit, earning more money per theater than any other current top-grossing movie. In the film, Grant plays Charles, a shy, befuddled single guy who is unable to commit to a woman. He falls for a beautiful American (MacDowell), and when he finally manages to reveal his true feelings to her, he does it by declaring, "In the words of David Cassidy -- when he was with the Partridge Family -- I think...
...Lampoon, the university's satirical periodical. And so he abandoned the frenetic life of a number cruncher for the frenetic life of a magazine editor, spending three years at Spy, the Lampoon's de facto postgraduate outpost, before joining us last year to put his sharp, imaginative wit to work as the founding editor of this publication's Chronicles section...