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...dalliance with his brother’s future wife—the writing is incredibly sharp and funny, complementing the actors’ flawless comedic timing. In a series of humorous exchanges at the beginning of the show, the characters discuss the arrival of the “melanin-challenged?? Kimber at the LeVay house. When Taylor refers to Kimber as white, Flip fires back, “She’s Italian!”—a running joke that ends when Kent and Joe greet Kimber in excited Italian, only to find out that...

Author: By Araba A. Appiagyei-Dankah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HTC's 'Stick' Flies in the Face of Racism | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

After being quoted in a collegiate newspaper that he had “challenged?? an economic study penned by two Harvard faculty members, a sociologist at the University of Texas has insisted that he was not formally critiquing their work, but rather providing an alternative explanation for the economic successes of certain societies compared to others...

Author: By Rachel T. Lipson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Academics Deny Friction Over Research Contrast | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

...books for their children and for themselves, an obscure children’s book author sued J.K. Rowling for copyright infringement, Christian groups tried to ban the books for promoting witchcraft, and the series made the American Library Association’s Top 10 “most challenged?? books of the 1990s...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: One Last Trip On The Hogwarts Express | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

...This is not the case in a production like Hasty Pudding Theatricals 159, where the audience wants to leave satisfied—not challenged??and where every joke has the same goal: to make some portion of the audience chuckle. There’s no discernable difference between puns on someone’s “cannon-BALLS” and Ai Swallow’s mixed up r’s and l’s. And when neither joke is particularly funny, things start to get uncomfortable...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Commandments' An Uneasy Success | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

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