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Although criticisms were pointed on both sides, good humour won at the end of the day. When Barro quipped, “You ask Democrats what their plan is, and they criticize your plan, and then they propose a tax increase,” he was greeted with laughter from both sides of the room, which was divided down partisan lines...
...early 1960s, when he began traveling around the world, Naipaul has infuriated not just Indians, whom he called "barbarous, indifferent and self-wounding," but also the citizens of Zaire ("trapped and static"), Argentina ("deficient and bogus"), Uruguay ("intellectually null ... parasitic"), the Caribbean (ruled by "the deadly comic-strip humour of Negro politics"), and the Muslim residents of Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Iran (a case of collective "neurosis and nihilism"). Upon landing in a new country?usually a developing nation that had recently shaken off colonial rule?Naipaul's modus operandi was to discover quickly that his hosts were relinquishing...
...know it seems odd, me watching my shows so much," he says. "But I enjoy them in a very heartfelt way." So do many theater-goers, who've become hooked on his trademark touches: classic stories boldly re-imagined, with plenty of movie references, strong veins of visual humour (in Nutcracker, now playing in Sadler's Wells, the dancing cream cake is hilariously reinvented as Rudolf Valentino), a touching sense of vulnerability (the same show has Clara in a frightening Victorian orphanage) and plenty of sex (2000's The Car Man had some very steamy things happening on car bonnets...
...directing FM’s staff to meet his exacting standards as proofer. FM’s favourite Brit never fails to catch and criticise a spelling mistake, but is always eager to relieve us of a few aluminium cans of American beer and keep the crew in good humour. The staff were always keen to have him proof, especially when he told us that our copy was bloody brilliant. That might have happened once or twice...
...Literature degree—he aspires to a Polanski-cum-Kurosawa career trajectory. His weblog, which features translations of lesser-known Proust and original analysis of the Harvard Film Archive’s latest showings of post-war Icelandic cinema, is updated with alarming frequency. Friends enjoy the sly humour that lurks behind his blue-tinted glasses, which are worn even when lounging in the Loeb Drama Center’s greenroom...