Word: humoristic
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Although Friend refused to let the mysterious candidate come to the phone, he said Derita might make a speech on the steps of Widener today at 3 p.m. "We're trying to talk him into it," the humorist added...
...supposed to go at five o'clock, but I have a smart lawyer..."). Jacobs notes that the film "opens in the concept/reality collision spirit of Getting Even." What she omits is why, or how, any of these gags are so effective--the obvious if thorny question in evaluating any humorist...
...work. Now women are building their bodies just to look good. Is that enough? Does beauty stop at the skin line? For this kind of woman, it does. She will be sitting alone, in an empty room, with her perfect body." Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker journalist and humorist, wonders whether this new ideal woman is only a media spin-off from the popularity of Jane Fonda and her bestselling Workout Book (see box page 75). "For the public good," Trillin says, "the more people who can lift the end of a car off the ground in case of trouble...
...innocent; the Kansas City Star and Times, for jointly pinpointing construction flaws that led to the collapse of a walkway killing 113 people at the city's Hyatt Regency Hotel; the Detroit News, for investigations indicating that the Navy had misreported the causes of death of several servicemen; Humorist Art Buchwald, for commentary...
...Xanthias, planning to depart for Hades. Depressed by an apathetic world, in Aristophanes' original they wish to bring back the playwright Euripides to wake the world with witty satire. Once in the underworld Dionysus realizes that the true artist. Aeschylus, can contribute much more passion and poetry than the humorist and decides that he will save the world by returning this writer to life. The modernized version replaces Euripides with George Bernard Shaw, and Aeschylus with William Shakespeare. But Sheevelove sticks closely to the rest of Aristophanes' script; even the scatological jokes and invocations to the muses live...