Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when nothing is doing, something is doing, for Frank's driver partners are all loony in different ways. John Goodman's false reasonableness, Ving Rhames' born-again religiosity, Tom Sizemore's addiction to violence--nothing about any of them can help Frank. The film is full of casual dark humor, but what's best about it is its resistance to the conventional three-act movie structure. Its string of incident is relentless, virtually undifferentiated, like life, and contains no promise of uplifting resolution. Bringing Out the Dead is like its title--blunt, truthful, uncompromising. It is hard on an audience...
Teaching today takes restraint, energy and, above all, a sense of humor. While the kids downstairs eat cheese fries, half a dozen science teachers gather in the third-floor faculty lounge over leftovers from home. These 27 min. are more like a sanity break. When they enter the lounge, they get to be adults. They talk about everything from weekend plans to the lack of staff parking to the difference between sweet potatoes and yams...
...Pistols' "Peace in Zaire" mix to the spastic percussion of Karsh Kale's "Futureproof in Zaire." Interspersed among the more conventionally structured tracks are sound collages like "Dr. Satan's Echo Chamber," a 20-second exploration of the evil one's sound effects. But such moments of humor are sparse in DJ Spooky's austere, dark music. Though not always as fresh and innovative as Riddim Warfare, Subliminal Minded provides an ample amount of spook, just in time for Halloween...
...there are some, like Fred Hood '02, who disagree. "The Importance of Being Earnest is an upper-class British play and that's where [Oscar] Wilde takes the humor. I saw a lot of minorities try out, and I came into it pretty open, but the world I'm trying to create is British. [As such] everyone needs to be white. I casted as color-blindly as I would allow myself within the context of 18th-century England...
...wants to marry. A random girl arrives at his house, claiming to be royalty; an uncomfortable sleep due to a pea under her mattress proves it and the two are happily married. Perhaps that's why Princess makes an ideal parody--a simple plot leaves plenty of room for humor: a crazy Jester, a flatfooted princess, a glasses-wearing prince and even an army of dancing, cartwheeling mattresses. Overall, Pea will elicit a chuckle from anyone...