Word: humority
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...Novak, a member of the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, had been brainstorming three months ago about a way to do something "really original." At first, he thought about sabotaging a Loeb Experimental theater play--a sort of performance art prank...
...consequence, the work remains one of confusion punctuated with moments of humor-the latter derived mainly from product placement. The ghost of Old Hamlet disappears into a "Pepsi One" sign, and the infamous brooding and melancholic speech "To be or not to be" is delivered in a Blockbuster video store in the "Action" section, next to the sign "Go Home Happy." Whether intentionally comic or not, they detract from the play's tension, sucking out any emotional involvement that might otherwise have existed...
While a little tongue-in-cheek humor can bring new perspectives to an issue, Allison A. Melia's editorial notebook trivialized an issue that many Harvard students, contrary to our poor turnout at the protests, actually feel strongly about...
...story has been told many times. Ellis Amburn tells it again in The Most Beautiful Woman in the World: The Obsessions, Passions, and Courage of Elizabeth Taylor (Cliff Street Books/HarperCollins), and it is still sort of riveting--amazing trashiness and unforgivable self-indulgence redeemed by a sense of humor and a fierce refusal to succumb. What used to be called sex goddesses made their living by enacting a travesty of sex. Marilyn Monroe played wriggling, dumb-blond comedy, and ended in tragedy. Taylor has got through by the grace of a life principle that lives in the house of comedy...
...gets better, or worse, depending on your tolerance for this kind of biting humor. "You come to the railroad station in New York and you sit on the bench in the waiting room," Silk tells his mom. "At eleven twenty-five a.m., I'll walk by with my kids in their Sunday best. That'll be my birthday present...