Word: humority
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...addition to her "wonderful sense of humor," Slichter said Gray has strong connections in the field of academics...
...really? Spy's rarefied, Manhattan-centric humor wouldn't be likely to find a mass audience online, but the cheap, egalitarian Web has long been a haven for wisenheimers: the cutting commentary of Suck www.suck.com) the deadpan fake-newspaper Onion www.theonion.com and the esoteric wit of McSweeney's www.mcsweeneys.net) More recently, old media have tried to get Blair Witch-y with sites like Time Warner's Entertaindom www.entertaindom.com) whose flashy but lame Hollywood spoofs prove the rule that online humor is funny in inverse proportion to its budget. And even in the Web's grownup days of corporate sites...
Miramax's co-chairman, Bob Weinstein, should be commended for his sense of humor; he's releasing a movie that savages his own Scream franchise. On the other hand, the movie he's releasing features star Carmen Electra breaking wind. He should be ashamed of himself too. "I appreciate that," says Weinstein. "I'd do penance if I was that religion. Since I'm Jewish, I'll just feel guilty about...
...Although "Goblet of Fire" sags a little now and then, Rowling's astonishing inventiveness in describing new wizardly wonders and her sly sense of humor usually keep things moving along briskly. Nearly every page offers something intriguing or funny. There are, for example, the odd books on magic that the studious Hermione consults, including "Men Who Love Dragons Too Much" and "Where There's a Wand, There's a Way." No wonder the parents who started reading these books to their children found themselves hooked. But this time, some of those parents may want to keep the book away from...
There is a scene in the movie of "The English Patient" in which the party is riding across the dunes of the Egyptian desert. All is laughter and good humor until, in the fraction of an instant, a flicker of inattention, the car's wheels turn wrong, the vehicle flips over, and the characters' universe is suddenly, irreversibly changed - all in that laughter-to-disaster instant...