Word: yorker
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...finally, I'm delighted to announce the debut of our new cartoon page, Drawing Room, which is edited by Matthew Diffee. Diffee is one of the most talented and original cartoonists around, and his work appears frequently in the New Yorker and elsewhere. He'll be curating and contributing to the page, tapping the minds and pens of the best cartoonists in America...
...auteur empyrean for the past couple of decades. There was a four-film stretch of genuine stinkers - Small Time Crooks, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Hollywood Ending and Anything Else - followed by one, Melinda and Melinda, that rose to the level of eh. And since this quintessential New Yorker exiled himself to Europe (where his fondest admirers live, and where the money for his pictures now comes from), he'd made a suave sex-and-murder mystery, Match Point, and two that deserve to have the veil of anonymity drawn over them, so I won't mention their titles...
...Franken for that. "Minnesotans, if they hear people saying things they think are inappropriate, they want an explanation. I think it's good he confronted it and talked about it." Franken has hired all kinds of staffers from other campaigns, but what he really needs, much like the New Yorker, is a staffer who explains his jokes...
...comedian will tell you, there is always a joke or two that he wishes he had not told. Not because it wasn't funny but because it was over the top or in poor taste. Let's say the New Yorker decides to run a cover cartoon of Senator McCain in a wheelchair, with his wife Cindy carefully feeding him from an Ensure can so as not to stain his bib. Again, in poor taste. It is often said that when sarcasm misses its mark by a little, it misses by a mile. Raymond F. Ramirez, MABLETON...
...Jonathan Swift was criticized for his satirical essay A Modest Proposal, which suggests that poor Irish treat their children like food and sell them to the rich. Swift was not promoting cannibalism or infanticide: he thought his audience would understand the absurdity of such ludicrous ideas. Does the New Yorker really believe Obama is a Muslim extremist and his wife a terrorist? No, but the editors thought Americans were smart enough to interpret the utter ridiculousness as an exaggeration - one that fits well into this increasingly overdramatic presidential campaign. Lauren Tighe, SAGINAW, MICH...