Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called art too. This whole movement-of someone wrapping up the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art in Christmas paper and a big bow, or of the Museum of Modern Art buying a hole in Connecticut for a substantial sum of money--is loosely called "conceptual art." Don't laugh--it's the most important movement in the art world today. And at the Craft Gallery at 791 Tremont St. in Boston, there's a two persons show called "Painting, Conceptual Art." The idea of juxtaposing the more conventional form of expression with conceptual art in the same show...
...takes some special qualities: the ability to laugh at oneself, the balance that allows one to enjoy great victories without being arrogant and suffer great defeats without crumbling. The job of society, rather than fitting aspirants into Superman's suit, is to pay close attention to the clothes they actually wear Rhetoric is no substitute for record, speechwriters for substance, charisma for character...
Homans also argued, "The only thing the jury gains from seeing the baby in the courtroom is seeing it kick or laugh or cry. The baby can't testify as to its gestational...
...some reason that may have to do with cultural heritage or perhaps their educational system, British audiences seem to respond most enthusiastically to jokes about transvestites and mutilated pets. The good routines, though, are universal. They're also impossible to summarize. The best way of convincing you to go laugh at this movie is probably to print an excerpt (but I tried, and it wilted on paper...
Unfortunately, after this promising start in the introduction at ripping the veil off the underlying structural causes of language's decay, Strictly Speaking falls prey to the very deficiency it is describing: it is written in such a comical, anything-for-a-laugh-at-all-those-illiterate-people tone that all analysis is obscured. Instead of learning the realtionship between social transformations and the way people talk, we are told reporters are too self-important, politicians too aftaid of being spontaneous, social scientists too attached to impressive-sounding jargon. As for the common, non-proffessional man, well, he comes across...