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...perfect message, driving the salespeople to distraction by handling, opening and reading card after card. I always avoided those horrible schmaltzy cards with photos of overfed children or sunsets on the front and mind-numbingly bad epic poetry inside. Instead, I'd search out vaguely clever puns, affable humor or subtle photographic cards with blank innards, paired with, I hoped, an inoffensive, non-neon colored envelope. And more often than not, after an hour or so of careful research I'd find something suitable, pay for my treasure and leave the store triumphantly...
...screenwriter, Southern's best-known work is undoubtedly "Strangelove." Kubrick retained his services to turn the movie's source-material, a rather starkly serious novel, into the "nightmare comedy" that set the standard for black humor in the '60s. Southern's warped sensibility is stamped throughout the film - especially in sequences like the one where Col. "Bat" Guano ("if that is indeed your name") suspects Group Captain Mandrake of committing "preversions" in a phone booth. The other title invariably connected with Southern's name, "Easy Rider," demonstrates his mastery at delineating characters through dialogue - as in the memorable campfire scene...
...Dipendra, 29, offered to pour drinks. The Queen Mother was with her friends in the sitting room; the young crowd hung out around the bar and CD player in the billiards room. Dipendra, however, would quietly retire 45 minutes after the party began. When King Birendra arrived, in good humor and drinking a Coca-Cola, he was ready for some gossip. He was involved in chitchat about cholesterol and gout when Dipendra returned, dressed in commando fatigues and carrying two assault rifles, and strode toward him. "Dipendra just looked at his father?he said nothing?and squeezed the trigger once...
...Hague and his party workers should have anticipated the bad news. The polls had consistently predicted just such a wipeout, but - buoyed by Hague's steady good humor - his troops never quite believed them. Last week, emotional colleagues tried to dissuade Hague from going, but he insisted the Tories needed a leader who could "hopefully command a larger personal following in the country...
...This time around, the easy listening kitsch of Moon Safari has been retired in favor of a dark machine-age psychedelia, undercut with a healthy dose of tongue-in-cheek humor. The opening track Electronic Performers sets the tone: amid distorted guitars, orchestral flourishes and spectral choirs, disembodied robot voices sing of love and desire...