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...Johnny Depp). As it glides shoreward, the ship is taking on water and has nearly sunk by the time it reaches land--allowing Jack to step lithely, blithely and with Astaire timing from the crow's nest onto the Port Royal dock. This little scene, reminiscent of a visual gag in a Buster Keaton silent comedy, comes at the start of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, cuing audiences to the suspense, grace and fun of the next two hours...
...herself to endure one of the most spectacular spousal humiliations in history. The Hillary enigmas are only semiunraveled in this memoir, but one thing we do learn is that she was as confused and discomforted as we were. She suggests that her ever changing hairstyles, which are a running gag in this book, were a metaphor for her inability to figure out who she was supposed to be and what she was supposed to be doing. (It is no accident that now Senator Clinton--duly elected and with a well-defined role to play--has not changed her hairstyle...
Meyer friend Johannessen picks up on this note, calling Meyer’s sense of humor “extremely trippy.”“Everything’s sort of backward and particularly George,” Johannessen says of the typical Meyer gag. “Everything’s sort of what you don’t expect...
...addition, unionization of graduate students would hurt the most important relationship in graduate student education—that of student and advisor. It would place a gag order on professors—labeled as managers by the union— preventing them from speaking freely or interacting directly with their students on any issues relating to student contracts or “conditions of employment” such as work hours, maternity leave, or teaching requirements. Professors and administrators would not be able to nimbly respond to needs and questions—they would have to be routed through labor...
After my two-hour meal, I’ve been converted. I scurry off with my hunger satiated and my wallet still bulging (well, as much as a work-study wallet can bulge). While other Thai eateries consistently activate my gag reflex with their lack of value, I leave this restaurant with a Smile...