Word: humorous
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...Capitalism. But the most unifying trait turns out to be a kind of dark, absurdist sensibility. In Goran Feniks' "A Weird Story," a man takes care of some paperwork while plummeting to his death from an airplane explosion. There's ample amounts of satire and schadenfruede, but little humor of the joyful, delightful kind...
...premise of the joke was not bad, and it was fairly well-executed by whoever its writer was—all in all a reasonably funny, if somewhat unspectacular, attempt at humor by the YDN. Much more intriguing about the joke, however, is what it seems to say about how some Yalies view the world. In Jokes and Their Relations to the Unconscious, Freud points out that jokes tend to reflect inner desires, fears, wishes, and the like. What desires, fears and wishes does this joke seem to indicate exist in the collective unconscious of Yale?...
...bring an end to Elizabeth's challenges. Her husband fell ill in 1947 and five years later died of lung cancer. As the King's widow, she helped her daughter shoulder the burdens attendant upon a queen. The "smiling Duchess" glided with resilient good humor through roughly 10 engagements each month until she was midway into...
...dump the guidebooks and read Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, a mix of black humor, satire and mild erotica set in Moscow in the '20s, a time not so different from now. Apart from the traffic - cars are strangling Moscow, and should be avoided as much as possible. So choose an area and walk...
...delivers. For a man who usually asks difficult questions and evokes fantastic images, Albee has settled for mild taunts and thorough something. If anything, The Goat should be remembered as a statement in irony. In going for the easy joke, Albee missed the big picture—and the humor...