Word: joking
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...begins. In a tuxedo jacket with an undone bowtie dangling by the tulip in his lapel, Wallach croons with the exaggerated sincerity of a lounge singer, bombarding the crowd with off-color charm, lazy-eyed smiles, and an eager but ill-timed joke about Eliot Spitzer...
...total silliness and serious, intense conversations till four in the morning. Hirschberg believes that the presence of comedy is crucial to all of her artistic work. Theater can be oppressive if you don’t have something funny. Doing comedy well is tough, even scary because if a joke falls flat it kills the scene. The intensity of the scene is what keeps you at the edge of your seat but the comedy is what keeps you wanting to be on your seat in the first place. In order to be interesting, a play doesn’t have...
...McKinnon's answer was mostly a joke, but he was hinting at the real message behind McCain's weeklong "biography" tour around the country. The purpose was not just to show the places and experiences that had shaped McCain, but to draw for voters and the media a clearly defined narrative of what those experiences signify. The tumultuous early years are, for McCain and his campaign, the first parts of a story of redemption, of a transformation from irresponsible youth to the wise elder, from selfish child to selfless adult...
...seemed more like a minor league team than a college squad. SDSU’s stadium had a video scoreboard in center field, a massive Wall of Fame in right, and several radio broadcasters and television reporters in the press box. The team’s coach was no joke either. Tony Gwynn, recently elected into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame, directed from the opposite bench...
...cooking show. But during a trip to neighboring Laos earlier this week, Samak sampled a chili-paste-and-fermented-fish concoction at a local market, and found to his considerable discomfort that the dish disagreed with him. On April 1 - and, no, this was no April Fool's joke - local newspapers put coverage of the Prime Minister's diarrhea on the front page. Hospitalized for food poisoning, Samak had to pull out of several cabinet meetings. The Prime Minister's fate, though, may be the retribution wished by many social activists, stung by the notion of $300,000 being spent...