Word: cleverisms
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...often clever, hammering at the outer band of humor that gets laughs from discomfort. Like listening to a gay man perform oral sex on a woman for 'N Sync tickets. Or playing the silent game, where they book bad guests and let them wallow in dead air. They call it cringe radio, at once punk and frat, like Blink-182 or Fred Durst. It's The Man Show without all that annoying polish. The program has a real garage feeling, with staff members walking in and out of the studio, twisting knobs, grabbing papers. There is no separate producer...
...residents. Livingstone's plan is to starve them, and after months of legal wrangles and, ultimately, a lucrative settlement, the city evicted Bernard Rayner, Trafalgar's sole bird-feed vendor, from the square. Trafalgar's pigeons are so tame they would eat from children's hands?if children were clever enough to avoid the watchful patrolmen. One group has: the Pigeon Alliance. Week after week, a grandmotherly woman marches through the square with a bulging shoulder bag. From it pours a thin golden stream of corn. Her payload deposited, the lady scurries away to meet co-conspirator June?she doesn...
...beautifully woven by director Daisy Prince, add a layer of irony and melancholy to what otherwise might have seemed a pretty routine story. Jamie (Norbert Leo Butz) is a Jewish writer on the rise; Kathleen (Lauren Kennedy) is an Irish-Catholic actress whose career never takes off. There are clever interludes--an audition in which we hear Kathleen's inner turmoil, set to the melody of the song she's performing--and unabashedly romantic ones, like a mock Russian folktale that Jamie sings to his beloved on her birthday. The show is too sketchy in spots, particularly in its portrayal...
...Clever reached his top distance on his third throw of the preliminaries to lead his flight. He was in third place going into the finals, but American record-holder Tom Pukstys—now in the twilight of his career—reached 74.49 meters on his second throw to bump him out of the top three spots. Clever failed to reach the 70-meter mark in any of his last three throws...
Breaux Greer blew away the competition with a meet record throw of 85.23 meters. Had Clever actually managed to place third, he would have been well back of the world qualifying standard of 82.50 meters. His personal best remains his Heptagonal meet record throw of 74.06 meters...