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...once read a study of what different cultures found funny. The author claimed that Brits love puns and the French the bizarre. Americans, however, find it funniest to mock. Author Jack Handey, a veteran writer for “Saturday Night Live” and contributor to The New Yorker, definitely fits within that American sense of humor. In his newest book, “What I’d Say to the Martians: and Other Veiled Threats,” Handey mocks all aspects of American culture, from the childhood lemonade stand to violent leaders to environmentalism.The book...
...weird to think of doing this sort of work anywhere else.”Four years of immersion in the HRDC community has created lasting connections. Kaufman met most of her closest friends through HRDC, and the literature concentrator’s thesis even involved a translation of a French play into English. But for Kaufman, nothing rivals the moment of satisfaction when a production comes together.“Seeing something that beautiful and moving that you’ve envisioned in your head actually come to life in front of you is unlike anything else...
...bigger and louder and has more ribbons.” Last year’s adaptation of “A Tale of Two Cities” replaced the guillotine with barber’s scissors, echoing the story of Samson and using hair as a symbol of the French aristocracy. In the group’s 2002 production of the Shakespeare classic “Julius Caesar,” the title character died of a paper cut. The cast, recruited through the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s Common Casting, began rehearsing three weeks before the show...
...developing a car to run the storied 24 Hours of Le Mans, to be staged this year on June 14-15. The Tokai University-YGK Power machine, unveiled at an April 24 press conference, is the first entry by a university in the 85-year history of the French race. "Now we are really going," Sakamoto says. "So we can't fail...
...while the State Department helped coordinate Richardson's trip, the effort still stands in sharp contrast to the crusade that French President Nicolas Sarkozy is waging for the release of another FARC hostage, former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who has dual French-Colombian citizenship and has often been held alongside the Americans. Sarkozy has sent a humanitarian mission to Colombia to gain access to the ill and emaciated Betancourt, 46, who was abducted in 2002. She "is in danger of imminent death," Sarkozy warned in a French TV broadcast aired in Colombia. "You who lead the FARC, you have...