Word: humorizing
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...pretty cool guy to hang out with ("I like this human idea of the grim reaper," he says, "I like the scythe"). Zusak doesn't sugarcoat anything, but he makes his ostensibly gloomy subject bearable the same way Kurt Vonnegut did in Slaughterhouse-Five: with grim, darkly consoling humor...
...superhuman strength--he was the product of a monstrous government medical experiment--mad fighting skills and a cruel sense of humor, and he used them to manipulate the media, assassinate officials in creative ways, stab people with big shiny knives and blow up buildings. Early in the comics he rescued a woman named Evey from government thugs, and she became his sidekick; later on he tortured Evey, to "help" her see his point of view. V was a freedom fighter, no question, but Moore never let you forget that he was also a terrorist, and as such he was both...
...mails requesting comment last night.Though elusive now, Sylvester was a common sight on campus as a writer and music maven at Harvard. A Classics concentrator and a writer for the Harvard Lampoon—a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—Sylvester earned bylines in the Boston Phoenix and the online album-reviewing site Pitchforkmedia.com.Members of the Lampoon did not return repeated phone calls and e-mails requesting comment last night.A reviewer with a distinctive style, Sylvester was known and read widely in underground music circles. He also...
...festival of theater, dance, music, and film produced by Harvard students. “I think he’s one of the great iconoclast writers of his generation,” said Robert E. Woodruff, artistic director of the American Repertory Theater. “I think his humor is biting. It’s social, it’s political, truly an American voice.” Durang’s most popular plays include “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You” and “The Marriage of Bette...
...fully honest in their matching ties and manly cavorting. This is not the case in the least. In fact, the males of final clubs are such adept practitioners of irony that even people who pride themselves on their so-called “ironic” senses of humor cannot catch them in the act I realized this during this autumn’s “punch” process. Politely, I would ask my final club-pursuing friends how the whole thing was going, and they would consistently give me the same answer. “Well...