Word: laughingly
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...Cleese was the Python's John Lennon (a natural leader, quick and acerbic), surely Idle was Paul McCartney: the cute one with the high voice, the gregarious disposition and the burden of the audience's suspicion that he needed to be universally loved. "When you make an audience laugh they love you, they really do love you," he has said, in what seems to be a dead-serious, Sally Field fashion, "and that's one of the nicest things about being a comedian." Pre-Python, Idle contributed a Beatles parody song, "I Want to Hold Your Handle," to the radio...
...felt committed as a couple and we didn't feel the need for an official blessing," says Naik. "That's partly why we went for the Hindu wedding. It seemed more fun." Naik proposed inventing a new surname combining elements of their family names to mark their union; Scapello laughed at the idea. But Professor Howard of the Future Foundation predicts a hyphenated future. "We'll be seeing a much more integrated European family," she says. "That means a real mix of names and types such as the Gonzales-Brauns, the Harrison-Perreiras with their multilingual, multicultural children...
...bookshelves in years to come. There it would sit comfortably alongside Xavier Herbert's fictional study of Australia's Top End, Capricornia. But where Herbert looked at race relations with colonial distance in 1938, Wright mucks in with postcolonial glee. "Well, I went to town," she says with a laugh. "I went to town...
Carpentaria nearly went nowhere. With its unwieldy size and unconventional voice, it was rejected by most mainstream publishers, and Wright was almost resigned to seeing it languish "archived in the Carpentaria Land Council office forever." Another laugh. "It was a brave publisher who took it up." Others might say clever. Established in 1995 as a bridge between commercial houses and academia, Giramondo's output has been small but sagacious. Peter Castro's novel The Garden Book and John Hughes' memoir The Idea of Home are but two literary hybrids that have monopolized Australia's recent prize lists. Says publisher...
...diplomat-all the quiet, efficient public servants from around the region who have volunteered to help a troubled neighbor. When local M.P.s moan that they don't get credit for the progress that has been achieved, senior RAMSI members hold their tongues. "It's hard to know whether to laugh or cry when you hear those complaints," says an Australian official. "There's a deep sense of frustration among the political class," says another observer in Honiara. "They are failing, and the people are increasingly aware of their impotence...