Word: humorizing
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...During our hour-long laptop interview, Goldberg told FM that although he made fun of Viswanathan “more than anyone,” it was always in the name of friendly sarcasm. “The girl has a sense of humor,” he said...
...more political humor, visit time.com/cartoons
...USED TO TOUR WITH BARRY MANILOW. PEOPLE SOMETIMES MAKE FUN OF HIM AS MR. '70S SCHMALTZ. WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT HIM? I love his sense of humor. I love his devotion to the craft and his devotion to this kind of music. That music is really the music of his childhood. One of my crackpot theories is that you never really get over that music. He's never really budged off his music, which I think is really fascinating. When I was flagged, I said, Oh, maybe I better do something else, and didn't have the courage...
...common trend among new musicals is a by-the-books run-through of all the dramatic conventions of what audiences expect out of musical theater, and nothing more. You have the standard big dance numbers, the corny dialogue, the old-fashioned tongue-in-cheek Broadway humor. This almost maniacal dedication to what is least likely to surprise, confuse, or offend passes as a celebration of tradition at best; at worst, it becomes a tired, nauseating series of in-jokes. No matter what arguments writers, producers, and directors come up with to stick to such “cult of theater?...
...editors: When I read your editorial about the Supreme Court decision upholding the Solomon Amendment requirement tying federal funding to military recruitment (“Not So Patriotic,” Mar. 13), I thought it must be an ironic humor piece. Poor Harvard must accept $400 million from the federal government, because it is in the best interest of medical and scientific research and of America as a whole. What a sacrifice! There are principles, but then there is money. Perhaps Harvard could salve its conscience by simply refusing the money that comes from the Defense Department. After...