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...There ought to be room, especially in a time of recession and cynicism, for a form of humor that doesn't assuage but assaults. If we can get it on The Daily Show, which truly does observe and report, we ought to see it once in a while on the big screen. Comedies of the '70s turned the trick, but the people running the Hollywood laugh factory don't even try. Why'd you stop, malefactors...
...Beck, Jenga is a metaphor for the plan's risk. But it is also a metaphor for Beck's show, which teeters from humor to predictions of apocalypse to self-esteem sermons to fits of weeping. ("I'm sorry. I just love my country. And I fear for it.") This is what makes it so compelling: the breathless feeling that at any moment, everything could spectacularly collapse...
...arbitrary secondary field in The Classics Hometown: Brookline, MA Ideal Date: After a semester in a WGS course, I can safely say it’s a date that observes all the expectations of traditional heteronormative gender roles. What you look for in a girl/guy: An inappropriate sense of humor. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Standing outside the bar/party drunk dialing/texting every boy I’ve ever kissed. [Note: If you’re ever subject to one, promptly disregard.] Your best pick up line: I go to BU. Best or worst lie you?...
...rules for its poll that the agency would reserve the right to pick the final name for the new module. Rumors suggest NASA may still use the name Colbert for a mission-critical component—the toilet. If nothing else, they’ve got a sense of humor...
...pivotal emotional scenes.Louis worries because his lover of four years, Prior Walter, has just been diagnosed with AIDS. Jonah C. Priour ’09 does a remarkable job with Prior’s decline, presenting him as disheartened but determined to retain composure and a sense of humor no matter the cost. He comes the closest of any of the actors to being able to elicit both tears and laughter from the audience within seconds of each other.Another standout performance is that of Benjamin K. Glaser ’09 as Roy Cohn, the mean-spirited conservative lawyer...