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...gender. After one woman turned to him and said, "The problem is that all men are assholes," it dawned on him that he was tired of explaining why men were not "assholes, slobs, selfish or insensitive." He began to make a joke out of the situation. Seeing the women laugh, it occurred to him that the best way that he could explain the differences between the sexes was to turn them into comedy. He insists that "when people laugh, they take themselves and their concerns less seriously. This is one of the few ways to break through the gender...
...there is generalizing going on, but it is based on my experiences with women. My experiences are the experiences of millions of couples. People always say to me 'how did you know?'" He also qualifies many of his statements about either sex. His audience goes to the theater to laugh and possibly to learn something...
...portrayal of the 1970s is scarily realistic. He doesn't overplay period detail: the furniture is slightly tacky, the shirt lapels are wider, and Kevin Kline's sideburns come halfway down to his chin, but none of this changes the ageless, affluent suburban setting. The film lets the audience laugh at the decade, but there are disturbing undertones to even the funniest scenes...
...first track, which is the title track, sounds like Art of Noise meets the laughter from Josh Wink's house record "Don't Laugh," meets, well, Duran Duran. It is a slow and "trippy" number, with LeBon's muted voice welcoming the listener to Medazzaland, whatever Medazzaland is. This is not the Duran Duran of our youth; it is, instead, a slowed down electronic journey to an indeterminate place. Although it doesn't get us gyrating in the aisles, it'll keep you listening, if only to question, what caper the boys have gotten themselves involved...
...Minsky and, of course, Charles Darwin. Pinker has a showman's sense for knowing "when to hold his reader's attention with an illustration or a joke," observed University of Oxford zoologist Mark Ridley in the New York Times Book Review last week. "No other science writer makes me laugh so much...