Word: humorizing
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...Myers' humor isn't even adolescent, really. It's infantile. It's babies blissfully playing with themselves and their poop. Any parent knows that children don't have to be carefully taught potty humor; they are born with it. Then the parent teaches them that a fascination with body parts and functions is wrong, dirty, forbidden. Now pop culture teaches them that because it's forbidden, it's funny...
...Crude humor and violence used to earn films R ratings. These days, to get an R, you need to show something really outrageous, like a naked woman. (The system is still Puritanical in matters of sex, adult romance and flesh.) This trend, festering for a few years, looks rampant now. Why would that...
...share of the copyright dues anyway. While Batt was still "in hysterics", his label, EMI, had already coughed up a first installment of €460 to them. Batt wants it back, denies any intellectual infringement and says, "I'm not backing down and neither are they." The rare good humor of the spat - consecutive perfomances of both "silences" were staged last week in London - could evaporate en route to court; if Clas-sical Graffiti sells as Batt hopes, the final bill could be €150,000. Both sides might care to ponder Cage's own observation that, "the very practice...
Though entertaining to anyone with a reasonable sense of humor, the cartoon is of particular, personal salience because I’ve been around these so-called “gifted” people for most of my life. I have seen the varied and sundry spectrum of “gifted” behavior all through high school and even now in college. But this summer, in my capacity as a residential counselor at Duke’s Talent Identification Program (TIP) for high school students, I have been left utterly speechless by some of the people...
...walked through the studio and everything stuck to her." But there was discipline to the decoration, and the result was a show to out-haute the best of them. Like Lacroix, Gaultier mixes age-old techniques - embroidery, appliqu?, draping - with New-Age ideas. His client needs a sense of humor to wear his dress with printed pearls, his feather harness top or his short crocodile jacket, with tail. Indeed, humor might be the salvation of haute couture. After all, if you can afford a $20,000 dress these days, you should be laughing. Yohji Yamamoto showed his ready-to-wear...