Word: humority
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...Humor has long been Jen's stock in trade, but what sets The Love Wife above her earlier work is its emotional breadth, its desire to understand and love all of its disparate characters. It's as if Jen is suggesting that in a blurred and blended world, we'll need open hearts to accept fractured identities, our own and others', instead of being forced to choose one side or the other, the natural or the constructed. After all, as even Mama Wong admits in the end, "nothing is natural...
...DIED. FRED EBB, 76, witty Broadway lyricist who co-authored songs for sassy stage productions like Cabaret and Chicago; in New York City. Ebb worked with composer John Kander for more than four decades on 11 Broadway musicals, including 3 Tony Award-winners. Known for his wry humor and unholy characters, like the lascivious master of ceremonies of Cabaret and the murderous chorus girls of Chicago, Ebb is perhaps best known for penning the lyrics to New York, New York, the big-city anthem Frank Sinatra later made famous...
...Clown Frankenstein (Loop Theater, Oct. 15-Nov. 14) The company much of Chicago is talking about; a clutch of clowns reimagine Mary Shelley's monster number?humor at its darkest...
...have attacked American positions. "We joke that after shooting at the range here, the shooting is better at TCP-1," Collins says, referring to a U.S. checkpoint at the entrance to Fallujah. The notion that the Marines are unwittingly training enemy fighters has become the source of dark barracks humor. Some drill sergeants joke about making T shirts that read INDIA BASE: AMERICA'S ONLY OFFICIALLY SANCTIONED TERRORIST TRAINING CAMP...
Viewing the scene from across the street, some students said they were convinced that the guest was in fact the famous singer, though the staff of The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, refused to comment on the event...