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...time I put Nash aside for Ernie Kovacs, Harvey Kurtzman, Lenny Bruce and the more aggressive comic geniuses of that decade, For I had determined that wit needed to explode, not simmer, and that a good joke was one so convulsively head-turning that it sent you to the hospital for swiveling-neck aid, And that it was harder to be funny than to be droll, as it is harder to create a joke than a platitude, Since a comedian requires ingenuity, while a humorist can coast on a querulous attitude. As the '50s ceded...
...them to focus and take part in school. But by 3 or 4 p.m., Papolos warns, "the rocket thrusters go off," and the kids become wild, wired, euphoric in a giddy and strained way. They laugh too loudly when they find something funny and go on long after the joke is over. Their play has a flailing, aggressive quality to it. They may make up stories or insist they have superhuman abilities. They resist all efforts to settle them and throw tantrums if their needs are denied. Such wildness often continues deep into the night--which accounts in part...
...Smith's ample girth and apparently boozy reflections on such matters as sex ("I wanna have an orgy") and porn films (she says she'd like to shoot one with "seven girls, two guys and a dog"). Critics reacted as if the producers were clubbing baby seals. "A cruel joke of a reality series," read a typical review. As opposed to sensitive, life-affirming Big Brother 3? LOOSE CANNON TRIGGERS DEBATE...
From the start of the Clinton Administration, the job of thwarting terror had fallen to Clarke. A bureaucratic survivor who now leads the Bush Administration's office on cyberterrorism, he has served four Presidents from both parties--staff members joke that the framed photos in his office have two sides, one for a Republican President to admire, the other for a Democrat. Aggressive and legendarily abrasive, Clarke was desperate to persuade skeptics to take the terror threat as seriously as he did. "Clarke is unbelievably determined, high-energy, focused and imaginative," says a senior Clinton Administration official...
...we’re cleaning Julia Child’s dishes. We interns joke that if all else fails, at least we can get jobs as dishwashers in classy restaurants. I might not have known what to expect of my summer in Washington, but that job prospect I had definitely not anticipated...