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...elections, when Capitol Hill was aswarm with triumphant Democrats. He spent two weeks abroad, separated by a brief Thanksgiving interlude at Camp David. Air Force One, the Boeing 747 that has its own medical facility, among other amenities, circled the globe twice, serving Swiss burgers and taco salad, with snicker-doodles for dessert. On the ground in Amman, the White House staff did grapple with local dishes like chicken frekah and homemade knafeh. The President and First Lady Laura Bush watched a replay of the Michigan--Ohio State game onboard during a 36-hour day that saw the couple...
...huge amount of support from people who were fans of freethinking. You would think over the years that people would come up to me and stick a finger in my chest. But people who don't like you almost never come up to you. They might stare or snicker to their wives. Maybe they think I'm a tough guy. I am five-eight...
...Shunsuke is simultaneously dazzled and exasperated by his wife's quest for satisfaction, admiring and despairing of American exuberance, fascinated and thwarted by modern gadgetry. The harder he tries to accommodate the new world, the more it punishes him. His wife becomes deathly ill, his children rebel, his friends snicker behind his back. "We're all together and our lives are filled with pain," he insists when the going gets roughest. That's only half right: at some moment between the occupation and the semiconductor, the Japanese ideal of togetherness faded. Now, as Kojima's sad, perceptive masterpiece instructs...
...humor in making models. I think that there is a popular conception that the people who make models and dollhouses are kind of crackpots,” Oatman says. “But you know, modeling really is the biggest hobby in the United States. There are people who snicker at them, and the modelers themselves are aware that they are engaging in an activity that’s kind of goofy.”“But there’s a kind of poetry in that—in doing something that is slightly absurd...
...like “You Oughta Know”-era Alanis Morrisette, in that they are more properly defined as social satirists than ironists proper. Their most raucous displays of irony are when they attend “The Wedding Date” high, just so that they can snicker loudly at Debra Messing or talk about boxed wine with a suppressed mirth so powerful that scientists have yet to fully understand its magnitude. Online discussion forums about “The Royal Tenenbaums” are full of these people.However dryly hilarious these individuals may be, we must...