Word: connections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alas, these possibilities are rarely developed beyond their initial statement. The writers' attention span is short, no more than sketch length. This is not surprising, since they used to write for Murphy on Saturday Night Live. It means, though, that they skitter from idea to idea, never pausing to connect them in lovely long lines of lunacy. The director is also rather distracted; John Landis seems to be browsing through the scenes rather than gobbling them down. As a result, a cast of excellent black actors -- about whom Murphy in his role as producer has been making justifiably proud noises...
Wolfe's exploration of the American urban experience helps chart a path outside the college gates, where all the world can sometimes seem a trade show. He exhorts us to cut through society's channels--lawyer, investment banker, janitor, teacher--and connect with each other...
...British Financier Lord Keith. Clarke comments that Capote looked upon the stylish rich "the way the Greeks looked upon their gods, with mingled awe and envy." To amuse these friends, he invented a game called International Daisy Chain, in which the point -- "SO educational," he insisted -- was to connect improbable people through a linkage of sexual affairs. Henry James to Ida Lupino, for instance, went "Henry James to Hugh Walpole to Harold Nicolson to the Hon. David Herbert to John C. Wilson to Noel Coward to Louis Hayward to Ida Lupino." Or so Capote said...
...last couple of weeks I prepared my revenge. Quietly, I worked at my carrel, plotting and awaiting an opportunity to pounce. Finally, a Garrulous Cretini came along. I don't quite remember what happened next, but they tell me he required numerous stitches to connect his lips back to his face as a result of the thousands of staples I planted on his mouth...
Jargowsky said that the purpose behind theinterdisciplinary seminar was to connect povertyexperts in different areas who were not aware ofone another's research...