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Katherine E. Lauderdale ’11 is a prospective visual and environmental studies concentrator in Matthews Hall. She wishes abstract expressionist cartooning were better appreciated. You can laugh with her or at her on Thursdays...
...Apatow movie like The 40 Year-Old Virgin or Knocked Up would labor under another handicap: it's designed to make people laugh. The top Oscar has gone to a handful of comedies (including It Happened One Night and Annie Hall), but generally the Academy prefers to be edified. The year of Citizen Kane, 1941, was also the year of Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve, today regarded as one of the great American comedies, with Stanwyck and Henry Fonda brilliant as a cardsharp predator and her millionaire prey. None of them got even a nomination for this supreme farce...
...lives. In other words, it is a very applied class where the students hopefully use the ideas to become happier and to help others become happier.6.FM: So if the course is about happiness, how do you grade it? Smiles?TBS: [Laughter] No, a smile is a B, a laugh is an A. As I said, the course is graded like any other course. [...] They have to learn a lot of material and the [exam] questions are no different. They have to describe theory and talk about ideas, show that they understand the material. But in my mind the more important...
...half years. At one store in Philadelphia women could purchase black fabrics of every design in July 1863—which was, Faust devilishly adds, “just in time for Gettysburg.” It takes great talent to make a reader laugh while writing about the Civil War. No one, even the fashionable lady mourner, is exempt from Faust’s wit. Everyone’s story—whether they’re a private or a general, a slave or a Harvard scholar—is fair game. Faust tells us about Walt Whitman?...
...ahead, 72-67, with just 1:14 remaining.“It’s hard to guard, you know, a 6’3, 245 down in the post,” Grandieri—listed at 6’4, 210 pounds—said with a laugh, adding later, “When little guys try to defend you, you’ve got to take advantage of what you’ve got.”But after scoring at one end, Eggleston blundered just seconds later at the other, logging the Quakers’ 10th...