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Laughter is a spontaneous, and by definition, involuntary spasm of mind and body, a confluence of intellect and instinct in a moment of revelation. This is why written humor, deprived of an active context, so often fails. This is why the expression "Ha-ha" appears so pathetic on the page. This is why laying down "laugh-tracks" on sit-coms is like forcing an elephant to do the Hokey-Pokey while spanning the rails in Park St. Under (a game young hooligans call "Shredding the Elephant"). The attempt to institutionalize anarchy deprives anarchy of its essence, and like all large...
...Allende's regime rather than as something that itself needs exploration. It's Raining in Santiago takes the opposite approach: starting at dawn in Valparaiso on September 11, 1973, Chilean director-writer Helvio Soto and his French cast recreate the atmosphere of that day, using flashbacks to provide the context in which the coup occurred...
...LIVING WITH JIMMY. He is a conservative, and he never kidded anybody about it. He says that he hopes for a balanced budget in 1981 in the context of a fully employed economy. I can live with that. We are just putting together the budget for the next four years. In order to make some of the tough choices that have to be made if we are going to achieve welfare reform or tax reform or reorganization of Government, I think the President has to establish some pretty rigid rules. He is trying to force these agencies-and I enthusiastically...
...that the screen romance ends happily; the film is, on the contrary, an attempt to dissect its failure. But within the context of loss, Allen exhibits an enviable ability to do and say the things the rest of us only dream of. On the simplest level, that means cutting through the polite dishonesty that garbs social interchange. When Annie admits she's not busy either Friday or Saturday night, Allen asks her, "How come you're so popular? What have you got--the plague?" And when they go out for the first time, he requests a kiss smack...
...Lampoon argued that if the material was examined in context readers would find humor directed at the stereotype rather than the ethnic group itself. The Lampoon saw itself a "humor magazine (which) attempted to amuse readers by ridiculing stereotypes rather than merely by repeating or perpetuating them." For their part HRBSA saw ridicule as missing the mark in these cases and serving instead to keep both the stereotypes alive and to reinforce the prejudice of those already so inclined. Furthermore, the argument continued, such humor was clearly perceived as offensive by other students and this served only to worsen rather...