Word: humority
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DIED. GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE, 75, inventive Cuban-born novelist known for his offbeat humor and vivid evocations of pre-Castro Cuba; of a blood infection; in London. An exile since the early 1960s, he was best known for his 1967 novel Tres Tristes Tigres (later published in English as Three Trapped Tigers), a loving, pyrotechnic paean to the energetic night life of old Havana...
...problems when I went out to the site for the first time. I went down in a bucket off of a crane to be lowered into the shaft, and the crane driver swung the cage wildly on purpose. But my grandfather said to treat those sorts of things with humor. So I yelled out, "I've been on better rides at the amusement park!" And that's the last time he ever did that...
...wants a lecture when they go into the theater,” he tells me. “Find a way to entertain while raising questions…Always have a sense of humor about...
Robbins’ good humor is all the more surprising considering the powerful moral conscience that goes along with his earnestly dapper looks and rakish charm. Those qualities could have bought him a breezy, pleasant kind of stardom, but Robbins has chosen the high road with weighty films like 1995’s death-row drama Dead Man Walking and 1999’s Cradle Will Rock, about leftist theater in the Great Depression, both of which he wrote and directed...
Kiernan P. Schmitt ’06 knows his humor. The English concentrator co-wrote last year’s Hasty Pudding show “As the Word Turns” (alternate title: “Vowel Movement”) and also penned the sticky and hilarious Currier House Musical, “Peanut Butter and Juliet.” Risking an offense to Conan O’Brian ’85, Schmitt took last semester off to intern for David Letterman. FM gave Schmitt a ring to hear the juicy details of J. Lo?...