Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tuesday's record-setting stampede (an unprecedented 1 billion shares changed hands) may have cheated investors out of a real correction in a vastly overvalued market, and that the Dow is not done shivering yet. "This was a bad joke on the small investor," TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec insisted. "It blindly reinforces the notion that buying on the dips is infallible--and that won't last forever. Today's rally was a reprieve, a second chance to shift your balance out of stocks somewhat because eventually, there will be a real correction...
...another eternally, ancient Hebrew poets call a Bashert (soul mate), one is destined to find. Regardless of your philosophical leanings, it is easy to think of life as a quest for that certain someone who knows when to offer a Kleenex, give a sideways glance or laugh at that joke only you tell just...
...last syllable of recorded time..." Whatever the intent behind this kind of performance may be, its effect is to make Macbeth appear to us not as a "tragic figure" slowly cracking under his weight of guilt, grief and paranoia, but rather as somebody enjoying a private joke...
...take the Aristotelian approach, it denies us the catharsis of tragedy. To use layman's terms, it's boring, frustrating and confusing. Either way, a Macbeth played straight seems as if it would have been the better choice; at Saturday's production, Colapinto may have been enjoying a joke, but the audience didn't seem to come away amused...
...book is the authors themselves--two Harvard grads who concentrated in philosophy and subsequently dropped out of grad school. (And they say you can't amount to anything with a humanities degree these days!) It's easy to write this book off as another ridiculous anti-feminist joke that only makes men as a whole look even dumber. But once you shrug off your sensitivity and look past all the gratuitous sports references, you find real humor, good points, and most importantly, the honest truth--even if it is rendered by two middle-aged Boston townie...