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...Danish as "Please come to our house for coffee," this phrase is used to welcome neighbors, friends, relatives and - increasingly - tourists into local homes. Along with the robust coffee, we are served plates of bread with smoked fish, followed by cakes and buns. And while we eat, our hosts entertain us with folk tales and stories of life in Sisimiut...
...Music is a process of self-realization,” he says. “That it is able to entertain, touch, or move other people is an added benefit...
There is very little to be grateful for in this production. Although the first half manages to produce a few laughs, as when the on-stage oral sex occurs, it is not quite funny enough to adequately entertain. The attempts at humor that occur during the first act do not sufficiently prepare the audience for the less entertaining second half, which is drier and tries harder to make its point after an hour and a half has already been spent producing a farce. One of the characters describes herself as “restless” in her marriage?...
There is a certain kind of person who takes pleasure in announcing that he doesn't own a TV. By doing so he implies that his personal life is so rich--so much richer than yours--that he doesn't have to entertain himself into oblivion every night, secretly fantasizing that he is the only man who could bring stability to Liz Lemon's turbulent romantic life on 30 Rock. I am such a person...
...kept a hand puppet of a fighting nun in his desk drawer for special occasions. Vincent J. Tompkins, a former academic dean who served under Knowles, recalled one Saturday afternoon when the dean dropped to his knees to entertain Tompkins’ children with the puppet...