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...accurate, and don’t exaggerate.” Chuckles greeted her recounting of Al Gore’s botched attempt to appeal to a rural audience by claiming to have once been a farmer. That said, she added, “don’t be afraid to do something a little unexpected.” A speech’s impact can turn on the writer’s success at what Winston called “floating the balloon”—applying the tools and tricks that “will give...
...tear up the ice wearing Timberlands and Converse-style skates. Over-the-top skating outfits can add to the hilarity of any film, and Amy Poehler’s latest venture, “Blades of Glory,” is no exception. And she’s not afraid to admit it.“There are some amazing, uncomfortable costumes,” Poehler says in a phone interview with The Crimson. She recalls one in particular. “It’s a very tight Lycra outfit with lots of jewels and feathers and stuff...
...read in under a minute each, Rich finds humor amid the darkest of scenarios: a lonely math teacher’s test questions (“5. A math teacher is frightened 95% of the time. How many hours a day is he frightened? What is he so afraid of?”), a Crayola color-namer’s recent colors (“Sad Red…Really Sad Blue…Divorce Sienna…Divorce Brown”), and a host of other scenes that form a whir of brief, existential episodes.By playing with our notions...
...that its tagline was not an “anti-male slogan,” the title was tough to stomach. The hosting of a “Fuck The Woman” party surely would’ve had the national media swarming Harvard Yard. Semantics, I am afraid, cannot be dismissed so quickly...
Still, the series has never been afraid to be topical or resonate with current events: nearly every season opens with a newspaper landing in Tony's driveway, underlining the suburban setting and reminding us that, to some extent, the show intends to deliver the news. Tony (James Gandolfini) has fretted about terrorism and suffered through recessions; wife Carmela (Edie Falco) dabbled in stocks during the NASDAQ craze and in real estate when that market took off. There have been parallels to politics--like Tony's Clintonian appetites and his Bushian yen for simple answers--and direct references, as when Carmela...