Word: entertained
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...From what I’ve heard, the magazine is going to be a fresh, new way to envision life after Harvard,” he said. Publisher Meredith Kopit echoed Chadbourne’s perception of the magazine. “The primary goal of 02138 is to entertain,” she said. “It’s a lifestyle magazine for people who are deeply engaged in the world; are intellectually curious; and have a constant desire to learn.” The magazine’s first issue features the “Harvard...
...remember is that in “Survivor: Cook Islands” these tribes are not created by the players but imposed from above.Although the program is not based on racial ideology per se, it is designed to foster and highlight racial tension. Moreover this tension is meant to entertain. Making light of a serious and disturbing issue is the common thread running through both “Survivor: Cook Islands” and “Survivor: Jim Crow South.” And it is this insensitivity that has led even such a paragon of human rights...
...national eye. The line between idealism and opportunism is ever thin as paper. But in Willie's relentless, utterly insatiable appetites there is something beyond the powers of political commentary or literary criticism to convey. It is much more than a conventional ambition, a presidential dream. Lots of men entertain that fantasy. What drives him is an unacknowledged anarchy of the soul. There is no reason why Willie must possess aristocratic Anne Stanton (Kate Winslet), daughter of the state's last great Governor and the woman Burden has impotently loved his entire life. It is just that she is there...
...wonder, cuts through all of it with crystalline joy. Suga Mama ("I'ma be like your Jolly Rancher, that you get from the corner store/ Or I'ma be like a waffle cone that's drippin' down to the floor") is another song so exuberant in its desire to entertain that it literally invites you onto...
...What did you set out to accomplish with Overheard in New York? The blog has a couple of objectives. The most obvious is that it's a humor blog - its purpose is to entertain. At the same time, there are a couple more subtle things happening. One is that the actual way people talk is very different than the way we think people talk. When you're watching a TV show like Friends, the dialogue from the script is nothing like the way people actually talk to one another - random and full of non-sequiturs. OHinNY tries to capture authentic...