Word: humorous
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...album gig as a pop singer. His comeback show in Frankfurt, the most comprehensive retrospective of his work since a 1988 exhibit at New York City's Whitney Museum, covers the artist's various phases - figurative neo-expressionism combined with abstract; solemnity combined with whimsy and even leering humor. The most successful of the "plate paintings" on view is a striking 1993 portrait of Olatz, which has the mercurial effect of a Cubist-style mosaic. Opposite hang blood-red abstracts painted on tarps or sailcloth, white Rothko-like spears slashing across blackened surfaces, and delicate, geisha-like figures trailing...
Delbanco’s style focuses on humor and Rosalie is wryly aware of all the events in her life, both tragic and comic. The novel focuses on everyday issues—employment, love, friendships, urban life—but Delbanco makes a point of creating a strong voices among her characters to keep the readers interest...
...Committee on College Life (CCL) approved H Bomb—which planned to feature nude photographs of Harvard undergraduates as well as articles about sexual issues, humor and art—as an official Harvard publication during its meeting on Tuesday...
...instead they performed a karaoke version of “C-C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips,” lip-syncing and dancing in a style that owed more to Janet than ‘N Sync. Kitsch? No doubt. Fun? Only if you have a sense of humor...
These days, you can find Orlean sitting next to you in class. As a fellow at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism, she has been auditing classes (last semester she took Wit and Humor, Animals that Talk, and North American Seacoasts and Landscapes...