Word: joking
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Franzen, who himself lived and worked at Harvard in the seismology lab, is definitely writing in his element. He captures the age of the nineties with its many different faces. What initially seems like a politically correct analysis of the ailments of society turns out to be a subtle joke on political correctness and a lesson for all: The world doesn't fit into the stereotypes so loosely applied these days. More often than not, people and issues reside in a gray area. Full of strong motions and emotions, Franzen's novel will send a few ripples your...
These five musicians did not always call themselves Ugly Kid Joe. Eichstadt came up with the name first as a joke, just a one-time thing. The asyet-unnamed band needed something to put on the flyers advertising their gig with L.A. glam band Pretty Boy Floyd, whose lipstick and moussed hair strikingly contrasted with the simple, natural good looks of the opening band...
...never actually happened, and Eichstadt still thought of the name as just a joke. But the name Ugly Kid Joe eventually stuck, and it's just one distinguishing feature of the band...
...joke. Derrida wonders "what is a word for consuming itself all the way to its support (the tape-recorded voice or strip of paper, self-destruction of the impossible emission once the order is given) to the point of assimilating it without apparent remainder?" Buried in that parenthesis (and several other places) is an allusion to Mission Impossible: this tape will self-destruct in 5 seconds. I thought it was funny...
Telling you a joke and assuring you that it's worth it is not, I suppose, a very good way to convince you to buy this if you have the outrageous amount of money they want for it. (I cannot sanction your xeroxing the whole thing, which would come to about $4.00. That's illegal. And besides, the book is beautiful, and worth buying for the cover photograph alone...Hmmm...maybe a color xerox would do that...