Word: jocularity
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...night of role reversals. The Americans, usually jazzy and jocular, were stony-faced. The Chinese, masters of Olympic chokes, were rocking, pumping their fists in the air after nearly flawless routines and passing high-fives around the team. With a feisty pro-Chinese crowd cheering them on, six men in tights finally captured what had been eluding China for so long: the nation's first Olympic gymnastics team gold...
Hmmm. When I first heard the young women's story - one of them sent me a jocular e-mail the next day, thinking she was e-mailing the man in the bar - I burst out laughing...
...Cheney himself was the picture of semi-jocular humility, and looking very much at ease in his new role as the quiet, smart guy to Bush's grinning front man. The former chief of staff, congressman, defense secretary and oilman didn't thrill folks with his speech, keeping it short and slightly aw-shucks, but showed no fear whatsoever. He did look a generation older than his running mate - the classic middle-aged white guy with a paunch - and no one mentioned Cheney's faulty ticker. For Bush, he's a throwback to another Washington, when men were tight-lipped...
Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat started their Camp David with a jocular scuffle to be last into the room with President Clinton; now they're jockeying to be the first to leave in a huff. After all, if you can't bring home a peace deal, then a little righteous indignation helps you look tough back home in the district. Leaks from the delegations suggest Arafat has twice gestured toward the door, ordering his aides to pack their bags on Saturday night and trying to phone U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan early Tuesday to tell him the talks had failed...
...However, one must note, Thairu is probably insane. His charming and jocular manner undoubtedly hides horrible pain inflicted by various disciplinarians. Pain that he discusses with seeming indifference. He was only whipped once during high school, though he admitted, laughing in the way Americans reserve for fond reminiscence of misbehavior, that he "can't count the number of strokes" he took during primary school...