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...unit make huge amounts of money-the kind of money that made Christopher Heath, the head of Baring Securities who was pushing these instruments, Britain's highest paid executive. The Tokyo team, says a former Barings manager there, "was a loose group having a really exciting time. We'd laugh if someone had had only an hour of sleep a night. There were days when you'd see someone walk in looking like death, then they'd go into the men's room and come out bouncing around like a new man." Barings in Tokyo was the place...
...always count on first-years for a good laugh, even when it comes to something as seemingly mundane as laundry. When Eric C. Liu '98 washed his clothes at college for the first time, he experienced no difficulties. However, doing laundry did not prove a simple task for another first-year Liu encountered. "This girl asked me if I had any quarters, and I saw that the clothes she had put in the dryer weren't wet," Liu recalls, "So I said, 'Uh...don't you have to wash your clothes before you dry them?' and she was kind...
...disembark, the captain and his co-pilot come out and stand with the flight attendants. Instead of the usual "Bye, bye, bub-bye," people laugh and joke with each other, and congratulate the great-grandfather one more time...
While I don't doubt that somewhere in America a crowd of rowdy teenagers cheered at Mr. Blonde's torture (in much the same way that past generation cheered at the success of Hollywood's great train robbers) or that people may laugh (usually) out of (discomfort) at something horrible, Tarantino's movie is so effective precisely because it strikes at the core of our moral sense. Not only is the success of this film not evidence that we are losing our sense of morality, it is strong evidence to the contrary...
What makes it all so entertaining is the actors' very apparent enjoyment of the stage madness. Their repeated attempts at stifling their own laughter add to the audience's pleasure. You cannot help but laugh along with them in this stand-up act with a plot...