Word: humoring
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...master of sprung rhythm, he could pack a half-dozen insights into a 100-word sentence on Chuck Jones and the Warner cartoon crew - "Despite the various positions on humor (Tex Avery is a visual surrealist proving nothing is permanent, McKimson is a show-biz satirist with throw-away gags and celebrity spoofs, Friz Freleng is the least contorting, while Jones's specialty, comic character, is unusual for the chopping-up of motion and the surreal imposition: a Robin Hood duck, whose flattened beak springs out with each repeated faux pas as a reminder of the importance of his primary...
Back in those snowy Iowa days, Biden was known for his blue-haired audiences. He would linger for hours, answering questions in a folksy way that seems to have an appeal to many white working class voters. Talking about his wife in Springfield, Biden invoked a bit of bawdy humor tailor-made for the beer-drinking crowd. "Ladies and gentlemen, my wife Jill, who you'll meet soon, is drop dead gorgeous," he said, placing such emphasis on the last three words that you got the impression he'd rather be smooching his wife than giving the speech...
...treated Fitzgerald in the initial stages. The ending rewrites any kind of expectation that we may have held in our minds, given that these two men were once rivals in love, and gives a depthless generosity to the story. It is also marked by a wry sense of humor: the doctor treating Fitzgerald doesn't know that the patient's tremors are the withdrawal symptoms of an alcoholic so he charts them as an atypical symptom of the new disease...
...pretending I was a jerk, but no one in their right mind would think I would actually say it. But they used it to say how much of an élitist I am." To say what a pervert Franken is, Coleman alluded to a smutty humor piece about virtual sex that Franken wrote for Playboy eight years ago. Of course, Franken has said much worse, especially if you repeat a joke in the stentorian voice of a political...
...Which is the other challenge that comes with tempering Franken's sense of humor: he can't use it to hide his aggression. Franken is that rare confrontational nerd, the tough Jew of a generation before him instead of the smoother, modern one that Coleman exemplifies. He still has the chest and disposition of a high school wrestler, and he famously took down a disruptive heckler at a Howard Dean rally in 2004. He loves obscure policy details, partly because he can use them to verbally beat up opponents. At the debate with Coleman on Aug. 5 at Farmfest...