Word: humors
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...confluence of beauty and function. But there's another almost intangible element, which is the emotion an object or a building or a teapot can evoke in an individual (in today's market that feeling, ideally, is desire). Think of the stylish plasticity of the iPod, or the silly humor of Michael Graves' now famous Alessi teakettle, or the nostalgia of a surfboard-shaped Marc Newson aluminum table. Great design is both astonishing and pedestrian. It can be shockingly fashionable and downright useful. These days, design touches almost every part of our lives, thanks to mass-market manufacturers and retailers...
...play’s greatest strengths was its ability to balance humor with the deeper implications of the play. “Fabulation” was diluted with an overall sensitivity as well as interspersed with scenes of intense gravity. I completely lost it when Elmore, in a grippingly emotional soliloquy, confessed that she had rejected her family even when her father had sent her his weekly lottery money...
...game portraying reincarnated roles such as a couple of babies (with the help of beautiful head-puppets from set designer Janie E. Howland), as well as a loyal house dog. Unfortunately, her warm and approachable acting style doesn’t do well on Durang’s twisted humor, and her performance comes out shallow, gimmicky, and shrill...
...track is well-balanced with its truly old-fashioned sound: the horns in the background call to mind black-and-white cartoons, and the vocal lines evoke the girls of the Broadway musical “Chicago.” Here, Gray’s sense of humor comes out to play. “Ghetto Love” falls too far into the modern realm and away from Gray’s own style, as evidenced by the title alone. The track sounds too derivative, but who knows—maybe that will make it an audience favorite...
...Stewart would beg to differ.Rich, former president of the Harvard Lampoon (which, due to a rivalry that even Rich doesn’t understand, must now be referred to as a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine), just published his first book, “Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations.” Full of short, comical stories, dialogues, and playlets, “Ant Farm” is gaining Rich praise from many readers, including Stewart, and comparison to another former Lampoon president, Conan O’Brien...