Word: humorizing
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...just cooks preparing family meals. And she fought against the snobbery that says French cooking is refined and complicated and for the rich, instead applying French techniques generously and sloppily to local American ingredients. She flambeed with insouciance. And unlike most other revolutionaries, she had a sense of humor. She was famous at her alma mater, Smith College, for her practical jokes, like placing an alarm clock inside an organ and setting it to go off during an assembly. For Smith, that's pretty good stuff...
...oddball humor. She reflects on the Norwegian climate, joking that her family "ran around in the snow with sandals on." She pillories cross-cultural dating, dispensing sardonic tips on "how to pick up a Pakistani chick," and addresses her girlhood fear that the light mustache that appeared on her upper lip would scare off potential suitors. She was reassured by the fact that her mom had found a husband despite similar wisps of down, "but that was before I knew that Dad had been forced to marry her." Not everyone is amused. In an August 2002 article in the Aftenposten...
...Jordan" (Pantheon; 288 pages; $21) collects Mark Beyer's comic strip that ran in a select few alternative weekly newspapers during the early 90s. A tour de force of the form, it combines wild, fever-dream visions with dark, existentialist gag humor. Beyer takes all the clich?s of the traditional "laugh-a-day" strip and turns them inside out. The typically cute, bourgeois family of the dailies has been replaced by Amy and Jordan, a fear-filled, childless couple who live in a nameless city full of bugs, aliens, dirt and neighbors like Dame Head, who is just a head...
...groups that are incorporated and have acquired their own not-for profit status will be encouraged but not forced to switch to HUECU. This category of not-for-profit groups includes the Harvard Lampoon (a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine), the Harvard Advocate, the Signet Society and the Harvard Glee Club...
Leaving His Mark on Japan Re "Unfinished Business" [July 12], about Japan's elections: Junichiro Koizumi has what it takes to be a great Prime Minister: dedication, sincerity and a good sense of humor. He has been getting lots of criticism from the public, but as the country's leader, he will never leave his job unfinished. He is a man of his word. We all need to wait and see. I believe we can trust Koizumi. Takehiro Hashimoto Tokyo...