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...early '80s, Chandler had taken over, and the speaker was in on the joke. "Now everyone does shtick, so you see this wiseguy attitude. They're giving you their philosophy through humor," says Mankoff. In a 2002 cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan, who wrote for Seinfeld, a wife exiting a movie theater says to her husband, "I liked it except for you." Says Mankoff: "It's a Seinfeld line. That person realizes she is funny." Jokes today are also less visual and far more newsy than they were 40 years ago, when cartoonists could not expect news events to enter...
...Within weeks of receiving the photograph, James Watson and Francis Crick built a model of the giant molecule's double spiral structure. Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine with Watson and Crick in 1962. DIED. YANG HUANYI, late 90s, believed to be the last writer and speaker of a rare language used exclusively by women; in Jiangyong, China. Nushu, Mandarin for "women's script," was used to share emotions, particularly laments in marriage. In 2002, TIME counted Nushu among the 50% of the world's 6,000 languages facing extinction. DIED. RODNEY DANGERFIELD, 82, stand-up comic whose...
...honest with yourself—figure out what you like doing, and figure out what you are good at. There’s no hurry—when you get closer to really needing a job, clarity will set in,” preaches David Bell, the OCS-sponsored speaker at Tuesday night’s event for undecided students, to his small but earnest audience...
...He’s a very good speaker to audiences he’s presenting to,” Crisman-Cox said later, adding that he was unsatisfied with Nader’s response. “I think he knows how to sidestep questions to appeal to this audience...
...Barry Goldwater. If I had been a Republican delegate this year, I would have walked out on Miller's tirade. That would also have spared me Dick Cheney's speech employing the politics of fear. To slot Miller with his venomous attack in the national spotlight as the keynote speaker says a lot about Bush's campaign strategy. Lowell Klessig Amherst Junction...