Word: humority
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...traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able...
Creator Ryan Murphy gave us the WB's teen satire Popular, and Nip/Tuck is best when it indulges its gleeful, dark humor about vanity, self-hatred and the essential meatness of the body--as in the pilot's denouement, involving a lipo mishap and several hams. Other times, it veers into pathos. "For 10 years I've been consumed with transforming other people!" Sean screams at Christian during an argument. "Starting today, I'm transforming myself...
Your tribute to Ben Franklin was a useful summary of how much he contributed to our nation [COVER STORY, July 7]. It also served as a reminder of how rare his seven "great virtues"--aversion to tyranny, support for a free press, a sense of humor, humility, idealism in foreign policy, tolerance and respect for compromise--are in the leaders of today in their response to the challenges of the post-9/11 world. Franklin's fundamental scientific approach, in which conclusions are drawn after testing hypotheses, is an important additional virtue. This philosophy is quite different from that...
...these phenomena—and like all good farces, Cloud 9 stretches, pulls and deconstructs these notions to make us take a second look. In her production at the Loeb Experimental Theater, director Joy B. Fairfield ’03 captures every ounce of the text’s humor, complexity and confrontations with convention, resulting in a challenging and triumphant reading of this play...
...play, in which Betty’s monologue on masturbation, taboo and her slow self-discovery ends the production. The choice is well-justified if not simply for the bittersweet and exquisitely rendered moment from Weiss, which in a night of phenomenal performances, is delivered with so much humor, earnestness and humanity that it still shocks us with its simple, deeply genuine feeling...