Word: joking
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...between audience and actors. I must say, it's as boring to type out criticism of that kind as it probably is to read it, since some close variant of it could be written week-in, week-out every summer movie season. It's tempting to conclude with a joke about the title: Maybe they should have called it Pirates of the Caribbean: At Wit's End. But no, in the movie's epilogue Jack Sparrow is seen setting forth in a dinghy, chasing his pirate ship, which has been mysteriously purloined. It is, shall we say, an open-ended...
...many years, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes and I would meet as we stroll through the Harvard Yard. On a number of occasions, we were joined by former Dean of Students, Archie C. Epps III, and Senior Admissions Officer, David L. Evans. Invariably, Gomes would joke that, “we must be very cautious now. There are four of us standing here, and to many that means a race riot is about to take place. We can expect the police to be here any moment.” To this we would always laugh uproariously...
...respected education scholar at Arizona State University and a co-author of a new book, Collateral Damage, that documents the cheating trend. The other solution is to make the state tests easier, a phenomenon known among educators as "the race to the bottom." Philadelphia's Vallas likes to joke that there are two paths to success for his city's schools: improve instruction for students "or give them the Illinois tests...
...single most compelling feature of a Thompson candidacy would be his magnetism. A natural storyteller, he speaks with a relaxed cadence and unhurried confidence, peppering his remarks with language such as "fella" and "bad guys," pausing expertly to make a point, relish an applause line, set up a joke. He is most effective when he makes fun of the superficial glamour of Los Angeles and the tangled hypocrisy of D.C. In a recent appearance, he supplied a cheeky anecdote about a fellow Senator coming up to him after he gave his first speech on the Senate floor, which...
...notorious "evolving" opinions (on gay rights, on abortion, on immigration), there's the more obscure dig at Romney's comic explanation for his spotty hunting record (the "lifelong hunter" has been on two hunts - "for small varmints, if you will"). And there's the for-junkies-only joke, resurrecting a six-month-old charge that Romney's landscaping company employed illegal immigrants from Guatemala. As an added bonus, the riff could also be a slyly self-deprecating poke at the exact persona Team Romney seeks to remind voters of: The angry old man, yelling at neighborhood kids...