Word: humorous
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...force down was Carnation Instant Breakfast--the same thing she gave Hilary after the orthodontist tightened her braces. Ginny was slender to begin with from years of power walking, but now the weight was melting off her twiggy body. By December she had lost 29 lbs. In hopes that humor might defuse some of the pain, friends started calling her the "Incredible Shrinking Woman." Sanderson took a somewhat sterner approach. He paid a call one day during lunch and sat on the porch with Ginny. "You're just wasting away," he told her. "You have to take better care...
...duties.'" While they were at it, they tried to take Newman out of the game, arguing that she lacks the authority to act on Padilla's behalf. In short, Newman was the wrong person, suing the wrong people, in the wrong place. "You can see where my sense of humor comes from," she says. "It's a little dry from doing this kind of work...
...commentary than Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. "Even people who don't like tennis will watch them to hear what outrageous things they're saying and doing," says Rita Grande, an Italian currently ranked 36 on the wta Tour. "They are so funny?at least if you have a sense of humor and don't get offended easily...
...earful from an offended viewer. When that happens, they read the complaint on the air. Without fail, they are then bombarded with supportive e-mails. "When people say, 'You are too vulgar,' I have to laugh," says Clerici. "The greatest vulgarity in life is not having a sense of humor...
That kind of humor, along with Eve's delivery, as loud and rhythmic as the whirr of a helicopter blade, sets Eve-Olution above 2002's mediocre crop of hip-hop CDs. The beats are merely competent, never original enough to stand on their own, but Eve-Olution's worst point, inadvertently suggested by its name, is its self-righteous social Darwinism, an outlook voiced 9 million times in hip-hop. "I got to win at any cost," Eve raps on Satisfaction, and she won't tolerate jealousy from those who haven't made it. She's witty and talented...