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...with the slow movement of Beethoven’s Trio No. 11. Arguing for Beethoven’s status as a romantic, the trio played with some of the maudlin expressivity that the previous performances had lacked. If the applause were any indication, this self-referential in-joke was not lost on the audience...
Before you insensitively joke: “The only duet those two will be singing is ‘Bye, Bye, Bye,’” think back on the history between Spears and Timberlake, and you will realize just how many strings were attached to their relationship...
...themselves, and not take themselves too seriously. Every time you have someone who takes themselves too seriously, some tragedy happens. Look at Hitler, look at Stalin and look at Osama bin Laden. They are all people that take themselves very seriously. You ever see Osama bin Laden make a joke about himself when he makes a speech...
...romantic interests. Though director Mira Nair and writer Sabrina Dhawan manage to pull a persuasively perverse thread through their canvas, their main line of business is frenzy. Anyone who has ever staged a big wedding on a tight budget will adore the many ways they work their central joke...
...OECD countries, with a worryingly large gap between the strongest and weakest German students. Moreover, only about 1 in 6 of those who graduate from a German secondary school ever completes a university degree, compared with 1 in 3 Britons and Americans. Germany's free public universities are a joke, full of perpetual students who have little contact with professors. As my colleague Charles Wallace, TIME's Berlin bureau chief, has reported, serious German students are flocking to private, fee-charging institutions, many of which use English as their medium of instruction...