Word: humorous
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...father, Stanley Johnson, an environmentalist and former Member of the European Parliament, calls this "the fight against crooks and nannies looking into nooks and crannies." Like son, like father. Both Johnsons make a humor pit stop every few minutes. But, says Johnson senior, beneath the comic exterior, his son has "a solid, philosophical outlook" and a "real, substantial core of belief...
...actors also managed to highlight the funnier moments of the play. Often the humor was a matter of timing, especially each time a new layer of plot was revealed. The moments of silence as David and Elizabeth waited to hear the click of the lock behind Chris as he left them alone for the first time in the evening made David’s explosive “fuck you” all the more rewarding...
Just a month after an editor of the Lampoon—the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—was arrested for taking a handsaw to three trees on the Mt. Auburn Street island, all of the newly planted trees have disappeared...
...once wrote that humor was the only way to preserve truth. How accurate is that today? D.W. Younker, ST. CLOUD, MINN., U.S. Humor is a way to survive. It can be a weapon, a shield against fundamentalism and fanaticism, and it can settle intellectual debates. But it can't solve life's problems...
...entailed. Much of the latter had been brought into stark relief during 21/2 years of national military service, during which, he jokes, he was "too campy in the camp." His natural levity masks the loneliness and vulnerability he felt in the barracks. But ultimately it was poetry, rather than humor, that gave Wong a means of working through the frustrations driving him, at times, to a suicidal state of mind. "It helped me wash my dirty linen in public," he says...