Word: humors
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...once wrote that humor was the only way to preserve truth. How accurate is that today? D.W. Younker, ST. CLOUD, MINN., U.S. Humor is a way to survive. It can be a weapon, a shield against fundamentalism and fanaticism, and it can settle intellectual debates. But it can't solve life's problems...
David Letterman's writers are delivering strike-related jokes and photos to the late night humor-starved on lateshowwritersonstrike.com. "The collateral damage from the strike keeps building," says one would-be monologue entry from writer Bill Scheft. "Yesterday on the picket line, the writers chanted 'Hey, hey, ho, ho...' and Don Imus got fired again...
...Much of this gratuitous misery can be read as the blackest of comedy, but there are plenty of other dimensions to Yu's writing besides gallows humor. Narrated in the first person by Sun Guanglin, a sensitive and lonesome soul who's trying to make sense of his bizarre childhood, Cries in the Drizzle stitches together a patchwork of genres - from pastoral vignettes to sweaty cinematic action sequences (a teen threatens to kill his hostage girlfriend with a meat cleaver); disconsolate philosophical observations ("Our lives, after all, are not rooted in the soil as much as they are rooted...
Occasionally jumbled blocking diluted the humor of asides that were meant for the audience, but were difficult to distinguish from communication between the characters. Some of these inconsistencies, coupled with some actors’ tendency to overact, made the first part of the play abrasive and shrill...
...romantic domain of Gabriel García Márquez’s Cartagena, Columbia during the first few scenes of “Love in the Time of Cholera.” It’s a vibrant place of flailing parakeets and short bursts of subtle humor; an exotic world of humid jungles and colonial facades, of dying doctors and undying love. Is the world about to witness Cartagena’s coronation as the new city of love? Not quite. Mike Newell’s “Love in the Time of Cholera...