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...Show more badminton. Laugh all you want, but have you ever seen how fast two Olympic-level competitors can knock around a shuttlecock? Of course you haven't, because badminton, table tennis, race walking and for that matter almost any of the more obscure Olympic sports haven't made the prime-time lineup. Instead, NBC relies on the more familiar gymnastics, track and field, diving - fine sports all, but focused on in the mistaken belief that, because average viewers recognize them, they'll be of greater general interest...
...question and figure out which answer to use. He thinks while he talks, too - when a specific question was asked, Gore would reel off the platform line for a while before risking a direct response, if he risked one at all. He has a nervous sort of snort-laugh that pops out at inappropriate times, and he apparently thinks "y'understand what'm sayin'?" is what all the kids are sayin' these days...
...considered part of the American context, that our presence is unidiomatic, all too easily aped, too often perceived as too alien to be appreciated as anything other than caricature. When the focus is on the "un-American-ness" of public figures, yellowface can generate the quick laugh. It was the route chosen by the National Review in 1997 when it lampooned the Clintons and Al Gore on its cover during the campaign-finance "Asian money" scandals. The Wen Ho Lee case reminds Chinese Americans in particular of the extraterritoriality imposed on "compound citizens." Everyone has a story, no matter...
...style theory." It's tempting to see it as a proxy catfight between Star and Spelling. For a master of camp, Spelling has no sense of camp about his own work; at Titans' unveiling for TV writers in July, he took haughty umbrage at a suggestion that audiences laugh at, not with, his shows...
...Lampoon suffers from a common weakness of undergraduate publications: they forget that they're writing for an audience, not just for one another. Amusing your friends is easy; making strangers laugh is tough. The Lampoon's Guide to College Admissions will be sold to thousands of people whose names they have never heard. Will there be enough genuine humor nuggets mixed in with the inside jokes to keep these unread proles laughing? For once, the answer is probably yes --they got through all 165 pages without even one mention of Maxwell's Demon. If this parody is a harbinger...