Word: humorizing
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...flamboyant cousin—a Middle Eastern second-generation immigrant who has become completely Americanized in the Beverly Hills mold. Weitz knows he’s being ridiculous (or at least, one hopes he does), but in this self-conscious political incorrectness lies the movies marvelous humor. If you aren’t afraid to laugh at yourself, this is a movie not to be missed. Bottom Line: This light, funny satire works because it doesn’t take its own criticisms too seriously.—Reviewer Dina Guzovsky can be reached at dguzovsk@fas.harvard.edu...
...whether the film is mocking the project or taking it seriously—which is intentional. I don’t want to tell people what to think. There’s a huge range of responses as to what people laugh at. I like the idea of finding humor in a foreign culture. It becomes much more real to you when that happens. It’s a basic humanist idea. THC: Which of the Afghani students inspired you the most? LM: I had the strongest connection to Palwasha, the young girl with the crush...
...metal power chords, but the results are equally ominous. The Furnaces even go so far as to record backmasked vocals on a handful of songs, recalling the urban myths about demonic subliminal messages in heavy metal music. Unlike some of their influences, The Furnaces have a great sense of humor. On “Oh Sweet Woods,” Eleanor Friedberger—the band’s vocalist and Matthew’s little sister—sings of being kidnapped by fanatical Mormon missionaries. Eleanor’s deadpan vocal performance heightens the absurdity of the events...
...thing, the book is a total pleasure. In Opal’s peers, the caricatures’ intended humor usually falls flat, but not always. The Republican Party aspirant Jeff Akel is a hilarious exception. Trying to spread conservative values across his high school, Akel prints posters with slogans like “If from drink you get your thrill, take precaution—write your will” and “All the dangerous drug abusers end up safe as total losers.” He advocates a three-pronged policy that includes bringing random locker searches...
...Unlike Card, McClellan gets little internal blame for the rough seas of the second term. McClellan kept his cherubic grin and low-key sense of Southern humor even when he was being rhetorically pummeled by testosterone-fueled correspondents. When McClellan?s Texas Longhorns were appearing with Bush to celebrate their Rose Bowl win at the height of the imbroglio over Vice President Cheney?s marksmanship, McClellan joked, "The orange that they're wearing is not because they're concerned that the Vice President may be there. Although that's why I'm wearing...