Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Andy Farmer (Chevy Chase) sits by the fireplace; his lazy, lovable pet, Yellow Dog, dozes at his feet. An odor catches Andy's attention -- hmmm, something's burning. The master of this Vermont farmhouse eases on over to the hearth, extracts Yellow Dog's tail from the cinders and gently stubs it out like a spent cigar. The pooch barely opens one glazed eye. This scene, briefer than a minute, is a vagrant moment of unforced drollery in Funny Farm's carnival of sylvan horrors...
Most of the University's professors do not have the opportunity to live in the traditional yellow Sparks House or Bok's mansion on Elmwood Ave. The select few professors who become house masters also inhabit grand houses designed for entertaining, but the remainder must face the perils of the Cambridge housing market...
...declare his undying love for the widow, and he and Fermina resume their relationship of a half century before, celebrating their union with a riverboat journey. The president of the riverboat company, Florentino has the boat's captain take advantage of the ever-present cholera epidemic to hoist the yellow flag of quarantine so that the lovers never have to disembark and can celebrate their love "forever...
Building on Pasteur's work, 20th century scientists have learned to mass- produce bacteria and viruses, then weaken or kill them and use them as the major ingredient in vaccines for such varied diseases as typhus, yellow fever, influenza, polio, measles and rubella. Unfortunately, the vaccines occasionally cause the disease they are designed to ward off. (Reason: the "killed" viruses sometimes survive, while the weakened versions often fail to cause an immune response.) In general, however, the vaccines have been quite effective; in recent years the National Academy of Sciences has reported only a handful of polio and diphtheria cases...
...show a home-movie look, and the plotless half hours are filled, realistically, with long stretches of small talk. But there are also silly interludes of outrageous comedy (a pair of cops cleaning up vomit in the backseat of their squad car try to figure out what the "little yellow things" are) and a rather smug assumption that anything the camera records, no matter how drably "real," is worth watching...