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...makes for a great course material. Sex makes for great reading,” Jenkins says. “There’s a running joke in English departments—you’ll double enrollment if you put ‘sex’ in your title...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kaiser’s Class All About Sex | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...Second City co-owner and chief executive Andrew Alexander attributes this to the intelligence expected of cast members: "Respect your audience. Keep the bar as high as you can. Don't talk down to your audience, and don't go for the obvious joke." The troupe - whose early members included Mike Nichols, Joan Rivers and Del Close - became known for its brainy wit as seen in sketches like "Football Comes to the University of Chicago." The routine shows a coach's unsuccessful attempt to teach four students the rules of the game. But they can't seem to operate outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Second City | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

...Accenture's position is unique in that it sells a business service and all firm-client relationships are built on trust. As it turns out, Woods isn't as trustworthy as we might have thought. Plus, Accenture's "Be a Tiger" ad taglines were turning the company into a joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiger Woods' Sponsors: Will Any Stick by Him? | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

...script element Fox had initially objected to was Cameron's failure to explain unobtainium, the precious resource that sends humans to Pandora to strip-mine the planet ruinously. Unobtainium is a joke term engineers have used for decades to describe any needed material that is rare, costly or difficult to obtain. For Cameron, the specificity of unobtainium is not important, and despite Fox's objections, he never explains in the movie what makes unobtainium worth the trouble of interstellar travel. But the answer to that mystery is that the substance's room-temperature superconducting properties make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avatar Arrives! Can James Cameron Be King Again? | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...Best In-Joke Comedy...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: BEST OF THE DECADE 2000-2009 | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

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