Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take two to three months to craft a corporate identity are being asked to create a winning, edgy commercial in just over a week. Online brokers Ameritrade and E*Trade, which are both in the middle of hundred-million-dollar ad campaigns, have led the way in using irreverent humor to get their message across...
...McCourt writes with the same mix of humor and sadness that sustained him through Angela's Ashes, but this time a sharper edge of anger and resentment accompany his stories. The maturing McCourt loses the playfulness and innocence of childhood, replacing it with his father's fondness for drink, an acute social awareness, and a searing sense of ambition...
...that his students learned something about similes, metaphors and five-paragraph essays, it seems that McCourt taught them a far more important lesson--that of the strength and resilience of the human spirit. When asked how he "survived poverty," McCourt said that he did it with a sense of humor, storytelling and "the dream that we were going to get out of that lane-- to get to America by hook or by crook...
...driver's seat and bloody siren lights stain the medics' faces. This gristly and sometimes hallucinatory style is not for every viewer's consumption. Sensory overload coupled with the constant despair theme can make the film itself seem too purgatorial to bear. But there's also plenty of gallows-humor tossed back and forth between the medics. The movie bristles with the kind of humor that makes the audience wonder how they could even laugh at something so horrific. But they have to laugh along with the medics if they want to survive the film...
Although he was a demanding teacher, Stern also displayed a sense of humor, asking piano quintet first violinist Eileen Woo '01 to "write a love letter to [her] boyfriend" as she played...