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Harris' day job, for now, is doing brilliant parodies of straight men. In Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, he goes to a whorehouse, picks out the largest-fake-breasted woman in the world, has sex with her and brands her with his initials. In How I Met Your Mother, his high-fiving, high-finance character has slept with more than 200 women and spouts catchphrases about "the bro code." "It's a burlesque of the heterosexual male as done by a gay performer, which is a big element of what makes his performance so compelling," says Carter Bays...
...core issue: Genetic engineering, for all the moral qualms that arise from it, gives humanity a chance to rewrite, to edit, to choose its own genetic story.This is the central idea behind the novel, and “Generosity” explores it in endless, and often brilliant, variations. Russell’s subject—creative nonfiction—is exactly what genetic enhancement is: reality, just with some creativity, to make it something you want to read about. The book he chooses to teach from, which itself is fictional, is called “Make Your Writing Come...
Egypt • slaughter of all the pigs in turns out to have been not such a brilliant idea...
...would be the most wonderful thing imaginable!” he said. “‘Tree’ would be a most distinguished senator—he brings every conceivable talent to bear: he’s brilliant, he’s politically sophisticated, and he has a heart of gold...
...Rachael L. Goldberg ’12 said that Armitage’s reading exposed her to a new experience, “Reading his poems and hearing him read them were two very different experiences,” she said. “Simon Armitage was amazing, brilliant, and hilarious.” Armitage is the vice president of the Poetry Society and a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, He has been described by Harvard English Professor and leading American poetry critic Helen Vendler as “a narrative poet in lyric dress, or a lyric poet...