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Since I first set foot on this campus three and some odd years ago, I have been known as a joker. I’m the goof, the comedian, the sarcastic guy, the prankster. The Crimson, an organization to which I have devoted countless hours since freshman year, held a dinner earlier this semester to welcome the paper’s new slate of executives and part with its seniors. While many of my fellow outgoing executives were eulogized for their dedication to paper and their contribution to its content, I was reassured that my “building presence?...
Though Friday’s tragedy has brought out Lurie’s serious side, he is best known as a joker...
...down-to-earth, fun-loving practical joker,” Abernathy said...
Duchamp was the joker in the pack. You can see some of his witty and enigmatic works here, including his famous improved version of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (with added moustache and goatee), on loan from the French Communist Party. A theme that runs through the show is the way artistic and social revolutions were born in smoky bars. The Surrealists and Dadaists made each other laugh with assemblages of popular art and everyday artifacts-their productions often look like in-jokes. That's why the R.A. has mounted them in a model of a Paris public urinal...
...Yong Xin, anxious about Shaolin's newly pristine image, finds his prodigal brother's behavior poisonous. "The man openly eats meat and drinks," he gasps. Even in the U.S., kung fu aficionados?many of whom themselves know Shaolin only from the movies?believe Yan Ming is too much the joker. Martial arts websites abound with references to the "fake monk." But Yan Ming isn't fazed. "To be a monk you have to know how to be yourself," he says, "and you have to respect yourself. If calling me a fake makes them happy, I'm delighted to oblige...