Word: wit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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These days, you can find Orlean sitting next to you in class. As a fellow at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism, she has been auditing classes (last semester she took Wit and Humor, Animals that Talk, and North American Seacoasts and Landscapes...
...Joel Stein's story "Spicing It Up," on how couples can improve their sex lives by using sex toys or taking part in a threesome. It was nice to read an article that dealt bravely and honestly with such an exciting yet potentially hazardous subject. I think Stein's wit and his criticism?that "our society has a long way to go before it will be able to confront sexuality seriously"?were well placed. Christopher Drinkut Clarksville, U.S. You should have explored in layman's terms how the brain is our most powerful sexual organ. Long after Viagra or Levitra...
...inside quite realistically acting out their fantasies, real life (and death) is running riot in the streets. A lot of the threesome's games are inspired by the movies they saw at the Cinematheque, and these passages, energized by memorable clips, are the movie's best. They have wit and some satiric edge. But, possibly because of budgetary restraints, the film pretty much scants the revolution. It is a vague presence but never a persuasive dramatic force. One gets the feeling that Bertolucci, who was in Paris during the 1968 May events, feels duty bound (or nostalgia bound) to celebrate...
...Joel Stein's story "Spicing It Up," on how couples can improve their sex lives by using sex toys or taking part in a threesome. It was nice to read an article that dealt bravely and honestly with such an exciting yet potentially hazardous subject. I think Stein's wit and his criticism--that "our society has a long way to go before it will be able to confront sexuality seriously"--were well placed. CHRISTOPHER DRINKUT Clarksville, Tenn...
DIED. JERRY NACHMAN, 57, feisty New York City newsman; of gallbladder cancer; in Hoboken, N.J. He brought his quick wit, tabloid aggressiveness and (formerly) sizable girth to top news jobs at New York's WCBS-TV and WNBC-TV, the New York Post and most recently MSNBC, where he was editor in chief as well as the host of a weeknight talk show...