Word: humority
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While Al Gore will sometimes surprise his staff with an occasional prank or imitation, his sense of humor is on the dry side. So it was quite useful that Gore's senior staff members on the campaign trail were always ready with a dose of exuberant wit. Whether surrounded by needling reporters or awakened in the middle of the night, Chris Lehane, Gore's bantamweight press secretary, winked his way through every bon mot. While other staff members gravely questioned Bush's experience, Lehane instead laughingly squealed, "He's as confounded as he is confused! He's as flummoxed...
...scenes from this campaign, a reconstruction of its key moments, a forum of fascinating folks (ranging from Jesse Ventura to Doris Kearns Goodwin to Garry Trudeau) assessing what we'll someday make of President Clinton, plus analysis from Margaret Carlson, Lance Morrow, Roger Rosenblatt and Charles Krauthammer, and some humor from Christopher Buckley and Joel Stein. Pulling it all together were our national-affairs team led by Steve Koepp, Priscilla Painton, Michael Duffy, Nancy Gibbs and Ratu Kamlani...
...Eight drafts!" says Geisel. "There was much I didn't like." On her no-no list was what she calls "sexual" humor that showed up in some drafts. Like what? "Oh, creating a furball," she answers, so disgusted by the notion that she refuses to elaborate. "She was really tough on me for a year and a half," says Grazer, "and I wanted to please this woman." Finally, when Geisel saw the finished film, she spoke to the producer with tears in her eyes: "Ted would have loved it so much...
...pays the servants more than the British neighbors do. Patrice is a liberal who knows about Che Guevara, even if she brings the name up only to spit it right back at idealistic Alec. Patrice had ideals, but they have precipitated into a wickedly sardonic sense of humor-for example, "What does a woman interested in American art do when they stop making the stuff?" The Burgesses wouldn't be torn about their contribution to apartheid if they werent deeply concerned about its ill effects...
...heard once that cultural references to Harvard far outstripped those of Yale, probably because of Harvard's pervasive control of Hollywood. The Harvard Lampoon, that semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, has become somewhat of a feeder system for many of television's best (and worst) comedies. Yale-bashing jokes abound in "The Simpsons," as do jokes about Brown, Radcliffe and other illustrious institutions of advanced study...