1.   And Jim Mohr brings wonderful deadpan timing to his small but telling role as a visiting minister.

2.   But its humor and tenderness, combined with the slyest of deadpan timing, made it one of the high points of my moviegoing experience this year.

3.   Dole told a Los Angeles fund-raiser Tuesday niught that he was once compared to Jack Benny, whose deadpan timing made him a star of radio and black-and-white television.

4.   He also has an uncommonly sure sense of deadpan comic timing.

5.   Mitchell has a sense of deadpan timing that is very much his own, and Thompson has mastered his role as a fumbling manipulator.