Word: humorizing
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Keel, who signs her e-mails as “Diamonde [amy] Elise Keel, ‘Self Appointed Phallus Breaker,’” adds that she and Cardinale have similar personalities and senses of humor, and share a love for period dramas. “We hang out a lot—almost everyday,” Keel says. They point to a wall above their fireplace mantle, which features a collection of sacred Catholic images juxtaposed with an image of pop singer Madonna in a leather dominatrix ensemble, from the cover...
...group eventually establishes that the power dynamic within a conversation is important and that humor is a way for them to collectively avoid becoming too polarized in a discussion. “If people are coming from any ideological distance whatsoever, in order to have any serious political conversation, you need to move slowly and not have so many voices at once,” says Ezekiel W. Reich ’03. “Therefore, a real conversation about Iraq couldn’t happen at our dinner table with all of us at once...
...first embarrassing moment when she had to go to the bathroom but couldn't get her one-piece flight suit off because of her broken arms. "Looking back, it is kinda funny," she says. "I can remember looking ridiculous with my arms hanging out to here. A sense of humor and little denial go a long way in making this a bearable thing...
...charges misplaced words, the other found them for the first time. "They skirt language in opposite directions," she writes. "Daddy mixes fragments of words together to make new ones. Ava, speaking in almost-words, a sloppy protospeech, dances at language's doorway." Cohen's amazing reserve of humor and honesty in the face of adversity--which includes occasional passes from her dad--recall such classics of domestic perseverance as Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions...
...Often these teamings make more sense as marketing ploys. As movies, they tend to be a tired jumble of stereotyped humor and steroidal fight scenes. At least there's something tonic about the films Li has made in the West. His character is so solid, so stolid that cross-cultural jokes fizzle around him; producers have stopped trying to turn him into a smiling Jackie type. And since his mission is not to learn American ways but just to catch the damn villain, a Li movie can get down to basics: punch, kick, pummel, kill...