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...club,” says James’ unseen C.I.A. correspondent, while Charlie Wax tells the gangs he shoots up to “Wax on, wax off”), “From Paris With Love” so embraces cliché that it almost becomes tongue-in-cheek. Indeed, a lot of the movie finds humor in appropriating the hokey reality of action movies such as “Rush Hour.” There are one-liners making fun of the American perception of the French—at one point, Travolta even paraphrases his character from...

Author: By Rebecca A. Schuetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Paris With Love | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

With a shake of Rola’s hand and a kiss on Conley’s cheek, Timberlake took to the stage, but the humor was not to cease, as Rola misidentified him as a singer in the Backstreet Boys and 98 Degrees. Soon enough, though, Rola realized who he was?...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hasty Pudding Roasts Timberlake | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

With a shake of Rola’s hand and a kiss on Conley’s cheek, Timberlake took to the stage, but the humor was not to cease, as Rola misidentified him as a singer in the Backstreet Boys and 98 Degrees. Soon enough, though, Rola realized who he was?...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Timberlake Receives Pudding Pot | 2/6/2010 | See Source »

...Good Place To Think of the Future” show the band haven’t lost their touch for delightfully edgy pop songs. The title track in particular will be causing plenty of lost voices at Campesinos! concerts with its rollicking, gleefully tongue-in-cheek chorus of “You’re pouting in your sleep / I’m awake still yawning / We’re proving to each other that romance is boring...

Author: By Daniel K. Lakhdhir, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Los Campesinos! | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

...these notes for what could have been remain genuinely tantalizing, especially in their flirtation with the idea of an “original” in a world in which people can be novelized, duplicated, or obliterated as desired. Yet his taste for parody trespasses well beyond tongue-in-cheek. Every character is either neurotic, socially oblivious, a raging nymphomaniac, or all three. Philip Wild is not only morbidly obese, but can be seen walking striped cats on leashes down the street. Flora is groped at age 12 by an older man named “Hubert H. Hubert?...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nabokov's 'Original of Laura' Remains Unpolished | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

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