Word: humority
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That's true in both war and politics, and it seemed to sustain White House officials, who watched all this with a mixture of grim humor and gritty optimism. They are comforted by the centermost core value in the Bush White House: that 9/11 changed everything. Bush's ratings may be slipping, but we live in a terrorist age, and 2004 may be the first election in decades in which polling patterns in May end up predicting nothing about November. "Am I worried?" asked a senior Bush official. "Of course. But we always said this was gonna be close." With...
organization that occasionally used to publish a so-called humor magazine...
...industry based on looks, Byrne's open face (of Irish-Scottish ancestry, she can appear almost Asian) should take her places. But it's her sense of humor as much as anything else that will see her through. As the brainy foil to Ben Lee's hippie wildchild in last year's The Rage in Placid Lake, she wisecracked like Doris Day on Benzedrine. Her ego won't get in the way, either. Director Clara Law, who cast Byrne in The Goddess of 1967 (2000), calls her "shy and very humble. She's got this thing about herself, that...
...organize and draw - but they make the actions seem more real. Call it comix verite. Similar to the work of such documentary filmmakers as Frederick Wiseman and the Maysles brothers, Brown eschews any sort of narration or insight into what the characters are thinking. Instead, Brown lets the humor and pathos speak for itself and allows us to more easily project ourselves onto the characters. This way, even though the story is deeply personal, it becomes completely compelling. Funny, sad, and a little embarrassing, Jeff Brown's "Unlikely," delivers the look at real life that other forms of "reality" entertainment...
Even while pursuing this repertoire of characters in such rather weighty dramatic works, Broadwater has managed to keep a sense of humor. Indeed, Broadwater admits that he selects his project based on the “innovation, emotion, humor, violence, and beauty” that a work shows...