Word: humorless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the similarities between the two glamorous, strong-willed and controversial First Ladies, Raisa and Nancy Reagan did not hit it off during their first meeting at the 1985 Geneva summit. Mrs. Reagan considered Mrs. Gorbachev a humorless and dogmatic Marxist ideologue. Friction between the two increased last year, when Raisa showed up at the Reykjavik summit after Nancy had announced she would be staying in Washington...
...alumnae of Quincy House, we were appalled by Master Shinagel's remarks about Quincy's dining hall checkers. Shinagel implied to The Crimson that his comments were a joke and that those who find them offensive are humorless dullards. We hope that other members of the Harvard community will agree that his remarks displayed no humor, but revealed a narrow mind and shocking insensitivity. Elizabeth A. Szanto '86-7 Susan M. Dynarski...
...notoriously humorless Sartzetakis, 58, has denied any connection with the abortive action by the public prosecutor's office. Before taking up his post in 1985, Sartzetakis was a respected prosecutor and judge who was imprisoned and tortured under the dictatorial Greek junta of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Part of his career was dramatized in the 1968 movie Z. But the President has often been lampooned for his intolerance of press criticism and his regal life-style. After the bust, the government of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou issued a statement assuring citizens that it respected freedom of expression...
...volume turned up to brain-damage level; the incomprehensible plot, this time involving a series of robberies linked to an arms-smuggling scheme (don't ask how or why); the music-video montages of the good life in Beverly Hills alternating with sudden descents into motiveless and entirely humorless violence; the none-too-subtle maneuverings to bring Murphy into contact with variously dim figures who can be run over by his motor mouth; the police colleague-foils, who, besides Reinhold, include John Ashton and Ronny Cox and whose chief function is to shake their heads bemusedly over Murphy's improvisational...
...sluggish, bereft of joy or bounce. His new recording, a warm-up for his production of the opera in Salzburg this spring and summer, never comes to fiery, diabolical life. It wastes the . talents of Ramey and Battle, and features an excruciating performance by Tomowa-Sintow as the hectoring, humorless Donna Anna. Far more harmonious is Battle's recording from her 1984 recital at Karajan's Salzburg Festival. The material is her familiar mix of early English songs by Purcell and Handel, German lieder, French chansons, and spirituals, but she sings with such crystalline vocalism and beguiling elan that...