Word: humorizing
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...idea of miniaturists when he was fleshing out the minute details of his pieces.He found the small-scale tasks “maddening,” and he wanted to know more about the people who do it obsessively. “There is a lot of humor in making models. I think that there is a popular conception that the people who make models and dollhouses are kind of crackpots,” Oatman says. “But you know, modeling really is the biggest hobby in the United States. There are people who snicker at them...
...other Harvard humor mags, watch out for Satire V this week and Swift the Friday after Spring Break...
...detail, Timothy is a spiritually fragmented man. Despite the companionship of his gay lover Sasha, Timothy is stuck in the aimless pursuit of curing his loneliness, and Bissell paints a movingly somber portrait that is never gloomy or drab. He wonderfully combines his bitingly sardonic (sometimes ironic) sense of humor with profound depictions of loneliness and emptiness...
Despite sashaying between political drama and action film, “V” has its moments of humor and subtlety. In one of the opening scenes, V draws attention to the “paradox of asking a masked man who he is.” The repeated use of the jazz standard, “Cry Me a River,” represented an understated metaphor for political subversion that resonated throughout the film as V struggles towards his goal of liberating the English public...
...Tseng ’08, and produced by Aliza H. Aufrichtig ’08, who is a Crimson editor, and Ximena S. Vengoechea ’08.The performance consisted primarily of writings adapted by the show’s staff into a series of unrelated scenes. The humor in the raw material, familiar to anyone who read Silverstein’s works as a child, was complemented by Wan’s and Tseng’s wise directorial choice of a subtle, honest approach to portraying characters. It filled the performance with the kind of humor that pleasantly...