Word: humority
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...Weinstein. "That marked him in my mind. Years later, when the Agent Orange case was in front of me and I needed somebody to try and settle it, I reached back in my mind to Ken because he was not only brilliant, but he had a particular sense of humor that would make people want to work with...
...writing is terse, stinging and barely leavened by well-observed humor. In tight strokes he sketches a grimly vivid picture of the depressed Jersey of the early 1980s, a Springsteen vision of darkness at the edge of town. The narrator dreams idly of escaping by becoming an astronaut, but he knows the hotel is his prison, and the service bell is his warden: "BING! BING! BING! That little bell going off put your life on hold. You heard it and you hopped...
...native who in the early 1970s painted cars at a GM plant at night to help pay his way through college. As GM's vice president for manufacturing in Korea, Zahner has spent his first year on the job trying to use a mix of down-home American good humor and hard bargaining to get the workers' union on board. "My point to them is that we have to be competitive to survive in the industry," Zahner says. "We need to talk about how to make the company strong to provide jobs for not just them and their sons...
...Dialogue is minimal. Tarantino's trademark bouts of verbal incontinence and off-color humor are reserved for the script's meticulously detailed stage directions. One scene has The Bride "goin' Krakatoa all over whoever's ass happens to be in front of her at that time." Another calls for "the most disgusting jar of Vaseline in the history of cinema." Whereas in other screenplays the words "they fight" would suffice, Tarantino devotes most of the script?which took him nearly two years to complete?to outlining the action. He lays out precise requirements, dictating which historical genres...
Students, many still with family in tow, filled Tercentenary Theatre for the traditional hodge-podge of Harvard history, humor and advice served up annually by three deans and the University president...