Word: humorousness
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...Catherine. Herbie Hancock then took the podium, saying Brubeck was the reason he got into jazz. Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu, a friend of Grace Bumbry, passionately belted out an aria from Carmen. And Jon Stewart - who shares New Jersey home-state ties with Springsteen - drew laughter with his dry humor before performances by Sting, Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Melissa Etheridge, among others. See who's who in Barack Obama's White House...
...posturing, wry, flummoxed, or brooding countenances as they fit their respective characters—allow for development that’s left totally up to the script. Fox’s son Ash, voiced by Jason Schwartzman, another perennial Anderson collaborator, strikes the perfect timbre between obnoxious humor and endearing awkwardness. Schwartzman’s delivery is appropriately adolescent, all but reprising a more frustrated Max Fischer—the protagonist of “Rushmore,” the movie that made both him and Anderson famous. The dynamic that Ash shares with his parents, his schoolmates, and particularly...
...misshapen tragic hero, a dysfunctional family, a lot of blood and guts, and general disorder in the Great Chain of Being. But at the same time, it’s very funny and self-referential, often poking fun at itself or interrupting serious moments with bits of irreverent humor...
...volunteers, all students belonging to Princeton's humor magazine, The Princeton Tiger, used their fall recess to drive to Cambridge in order to help their less fortunate peers. 'Everyone's hurting in this economy,' said Steven Liss, Chairman of The Tiger...
...grounded and understand the plight of the "less fortunate," editors of The Tiger. Oh, and Flyby just received some breaking news: editors of The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that occasionally used to publish a so-called humor magazine, recently announced that they'll be driving down to Princeton to serve as stand-in butlers for the few that the university had to lay off due to its own budget cuts...