Word: humorizing
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...administrators and career service staff read the cartoon’s humor differently...
...eulogy for the jazz era which faded with the onset of rock ‘n’ roll. On a more intimate level, Side Man also explores the way that Gene’s passion for jazz rules and ultimately ruins his personal life. Infused with wry humor, the Tony-award winning show demonstrates that the life of a professional artist is never simple: music is at once Gene’s sole source of spiritual manna and his proverbial Achilles’ heel. As they gather in a draughty and cramped rehearsal room on a freezing Wednesday evening...
...romantic failings in harrowing biographical songs. Singer/songwriter Bryan Adams, 43, is a sunny Canadian whose songs are crafted with lapidary precision for Top 40 radio and the playlist of wedding bands. Apparently some of Ryan's more puerile fans find the similarity of their names an irresistible opportunity for humor. At a recent Ryan Adams concert in Nashville, Tenn., a fan shouted out a request for Summer of '69, a Bryan Adams song. Get it? Ryan stopped playing, insisted the lights be turned on, unleashed a torrent of expletives, dug $30 out of his pocket to give...
...some of her more standard concert fare, in terms of both music and in-between-the-songs antics. The disc begins with “Swan Dive,” an energetic and intense song. Upon her first strum of the guitar, however she injects a bit of humor, saying, “I don’t know why the fuck I play acoustic guitars. I hate that acoustic guitar sound...
...Wavers Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard in the early 1960s, Donen largely ignored the experimental techniques of his European colleagues and instead channeled his skills as an MGM musicals maestro into crafting a highly stylized and clever thriller scored by Henry Mancini and interlaced with a deadpan humor and snappy script. In one scene, as Grant’s character is forced atop the roof of a Parisian American Express building where he presumably will be shot, he deadpans, “All right, but the view better be worth it.” Once outside, he pauses...