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...BOTTOM LINE: This popular sitcom has good things going for it, but wit, style and subtlety are not among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor And Other Pains | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

...often what passes for wit is merely the insertion of brand names or pop- culture references designed to get a rise out of the baby-boomer audience. "For a guy who knows all the words to In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, you're starting to sound an awful lot like Pat Boone," says Murphy. Or: "I've been carrying this kid for longer than Bonanza was on the air." At Phil's, the wateringhole where Washington's movers and shakers supposedly mingle, the running gags about famous patrons ("I keep telling Koppel to stop bringing in that garbage") amount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor And Other Pains | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Norman K. Mailer '43 delighted an audience of more than 100 in Emerson Hall this weekend, reading an unpublished work an fielding questions with characteristic eloquence and wit...

Author: By Daniel M. Steinman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Mailer Speaks on America | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

...gifted and star-studded cast. Sabrina proves itself just another jewel in William Holden's cap of acting talent. Here he fits perfectly into the role of a spoiled, dashing, rich heir to a plastics corporation. His brother (Humphrey Bogart) is the more interesting sibling, combining a clever wit held back only by a self-punishing impulse to work hard and keep long hours as the chairman of the company. Enter Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn), daughter of Fairchild, the family chauffeur. Sho captures the hearts of both brothers and provides a strong temptation for the blue-suited Bogart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reel to Reel: | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

...theme park with hotels attached. Euro Disney is the reverse: a spectacular sprawl that confirms the company as a premier force in modern architecture. A decade ago, as architects began to shrug off their Modernist doldrums, they saw in Disney's park designs an attractive blend of wit, glamour and function. Suddenly there was nothing wrong with places that were fun to look at and to live in. Eisner took advantage of the new spirit and hired such Postmodernist master builders as Michael Graves (for the whimsical but still somehow leaden Swan and Dolphin hotels in Florida) and Robert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voila! Disney Invades Europe. Will the French Resist? | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

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