Word: humoring
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...similarly haphazard fashion. “I was sitting in the sound mix, and I said to the sound mixer, as the music was trailing off, ‘We should end this film with a bang,’” Friedkin explained with characteristic humor. “And he said, ‘So what do you want to do?’ And I said, ‘We should end this film with a bang.’”Friday’s Q & A was not all amiable storytelling...
...think those things are evident now.”Steiker also pinpoints Kagan’s “very natural, New Yorky” grounding as one of the sources of her likability.Kagan’s “somewhat self-effacing” sense of humor makes her an engaging personality who can connect well with a diverse group of people, Steiker says. During the Senate confirmation hearing, Kagan elicited chuckles from the panel by calling herself a “pipsqueak” clerking for then-Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, whom she called...
...captivating lines often filled with biting understatements. His accessible diction serves to capture well-observed and interesting moments in the ordinary.So Holder’s work does have redeeming qualities. Perhaps he desired his writing to be subtle and, like his subjects, oddly ordinary. In fact, his understated humor is often lacking in today’s culture. In the end of “Sig Klein’s Fat Man’s Shop,” he writes, “Comforting us / With the notion / That there is indeed...
...flair for the macabre - in one scene, a man who has been tortured by Red Guards commits suicide by driving a nail through his skull - but there's humor in between the horror. Having made a fortune trading scrap, Baldy decides to launch a contest to find the country's most beautiful virgin. The "Inaugural National Virgin Beauty Competition" is a punchy spoof of the Beijing Olympics, complete with salivating sponsors, a city leveled and rebuilt for out-of-town guests and a contestant who wins by sleeping with the judges. Portraits of contemporary China are rarely sharper or more...
...this great combination of an incredibly sweet guy with also this very wry sense of humor,” Seider said. “He was both very funny and also very sincere...