Word: humority
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Million Dollar Baby is the best of the bunch, a tight and powerful film that offers pathos, warm humor, and classical tragedy in surprisingly equal parts. The end is devastating, but the promise of redemption is not far from the film’s horizon. Throw in the charming friendship between director and star Clint Eastwood and narrator Morgan Freeman, and you have a complex portrait of a world both heartrending and hopeful...
...SENATOR" Despite his kind words, McCain may not be Clinton's favorite Republican. That could be South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who showed off the sweeter side of bipartisanship in a New York magazine piece on Clinton last week. A few quotes: "She's got a great sense of humor." "She's intelligent, she's classy, and she's comfortable with who she is and what she believes." "I think she could win every state John Kerry won. And she'd probably be a better candidate in the swing states." Graham, who joined Maine Senator Susan Collins, Wisconsin Senator Russ...
...sorting through a laundry basket speak in puns about the articles found therein. The exchanges work well for about the first four items, but the banter loses its charm by the time the characters come to discuss “tidy-whities,” at which point the humor of the situation has long passed...
Though it delves into serious subjects, "Four Immigrants" always remains true to its comic strip nature, telling its stories with charm and good humor. Originally a bilingual text, dialogue spoken between Japanese characters appeared in Japanese, but any interaction with the "whiteys" has been written in the Pidgin English of the non-native speaker. A good deal of credit for the book's readability goes to its translator, Frederik L. Schodt, who has been writing about Japanese comics since the 1980s, and rediscovered "Four Immigrants." Wisely leaving the English as-is, Schodt makes the original Japanese dialogue seem natural without...
...Combining an account of actual lives in the context of world history, yet told with the charm and humor of a Sunday comic strip, Yoshitaka Kiyama's "The Four Immigrants Manga" should not be missed. A book to be enjoyed by readers of history and comix, this once-lost artifact works as both a delightful read and a reminder of where Americans come from...