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...sorry. I don't know what that is."(Laughter. Click.) JEROME CHOU
...this Ted guy?" Sean asked amidst the laughter...
Finley doesn't really ever want, or let, the audience laugh with her; we are meant to be uneasy, our laughter always self-conscious, her pain pointedly indigestible. Her predilection for the strangely dramatic keeps us even more off-balance. In front of three slide projectors projecting white light with no pictures, Finley strides onstage wearing only black mules, her posture, tone and demeanor daring us to make her into a sex object. We can't because she won't allow us to, her voice stronger than our gaze, conquering and shaming her would-be voyeurs. She puts...
Softball isn't life, nor is it journalism. Yet there is an enchantment about the game, in the laughter of comrades, the cheers of friends, the resonance of a ball well hit, the pulsing high after racing for home. Maybe this is what life should be all about. We'll figure it out next summer -- at the ball games...
Thursday's efforts at satire utterly degraded the strength and courage of those who manage the difficult task of dying with dignity. By treating terminal illness as a quality to be mocked, it both dehumanized the dying and, in its scornful laughter, turned death into a bad joke played on other people. In short, it made us all, and even life itself, seem a little cheaper, a little more ugly...