Word: humority
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...points throughout the lecture, the audience was even able to catch a glimpse of Steiner’s humor...
...Qaeda members--were fooled by a satirical 1979 article that the would-be terrorists found on the Web. A sharp-eyed editor at a site called the Daily Rotten noticed similarities between a facetious article titled "Let's Make a Thermonuclear Device!" which appeared in a now defunct humor publication called Journal of Irreproducible Results, and the language in the Times story, as well as the images on the BBC. A sample passage from the article: "Please remember that Plutonium is somewhat dangerous. Wash your hands with soap and warm water after handling the material, and don't allow your...
...good young actor with original looks." It's an understatement, but true enough. Born and bred in the affluent environs of north Dallas, Wilson was a rambunctious kid (he was expelled from prep school in 10th grade for cheating in geometry) who found redemption in his sly sense of humor and knack for writing quirky dialogue. Majoring in English at the University of Texas, he discovered a kindred spirit in Anderson, his senior-year roommate. In 1992, they wrote Bottle Rocket as a short film. After it played at the Sundance Film Festival, producer-director James L. Brooks (As Good...
Anyway, the original's achievement had nothing to do with craft, subtlety or writing; it was all about blending humor, sports and unabashed sap to make guys unembarrassed to sob, at the precipice of the sensitive '70s. (A year later, football star Rosie Grier sang It's All Right to Cry in the seminal children's album Free to Be You and Me.) Brian's Song was wholly of its time, when football was a rising competitor to baseball, when the civil-rights struggle was fresh in the public mind, when men were redefining manhood...
...traditional coming-of-age bildungsroman tossed in. More Tom Sawyer than Huckleberry Finn, with the accent on a soft center rather than on gritty harder edges, the formerly "re-educated" Dai Sijie's first novel?a best seller in France?is still a diverting bagatelle abounding in gentle humor, warm bonhomie and appealing charm. No small triumph for a tale set in that unhappy era not too long ago when "every nook and cranny of the land came under the all-seeing eye of the dictatorship of the proletariat, which had cast its gigantic fine-meshed net over the whole...