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...them. There's something slightly mousy in her presence; she seems more a victim than a mastermind, a character actress trying to command a star part. Her cohorts pip-pip merrily through the historical flummery, letting their accents do their acting for them. Swank doesn't quite get the joke. Charles Shyer, the director, does. He understands that we're mostly there for the drollery and the decolletage. Every movie season requires a handsomely appointed irrelevance, and his movie fills that need admirably...
...fishies everywhere in the December Glamourscope. “Do make a wild New Year’s Eve resolution (yes, even ‘Get hitched in 2002’).” Whoa there, Glamour. I know this whole astrology thing is a big joke we inexplicably like to include in the morning paper and call 1-800 numbers about, but since when is it okay to slip a little tidbit like that into a harmless parenthesis. The reading “Do make a wild New Year’s Eve resolution” would have been...
...Dershovitz ‘02, who is often mistakenly thought to have black or Native American ancestry. Commented Kandu, who is black, “If Neil was actually half-black or something, I’d break up with him,” which is not a joke as much as it’s a strange and uncomfortable truth...
Surely this must be a joke, I thought. People have been toasting bread for centuries, and they've never needed a computer to get the job done. Like answering machines, microwaves and VCRs before it, even the humble toaster seemed to have become too smart for its own good. To find out for sure, I put to the test four of the fanciest models I could find...
...schmaltzy theater and lack of serious debate on the issues led many Taiwanese to write off the campaign as nothing more than a bad joke. But by the time results were tallied on Saturday night, it was clear that, either by serendipity or intent, Taiwan's voters had orchestrated a revolution, one that is arguably even more sweeping than Chen Shui-bian's victory in the March 2000 presidential elections. As a result, Taiwan's relations with mainland China, which regards the island as a renegade province, could become a lot more testy...