Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coming in an unlikely second in endorsements is Dreyfus, who in addition to the support of his fellow Society of Physics Students, has also gained an endorsement from the staff of the Demon, a quarterly campus humor magazine...
...conservatives want to have it both ways (an aspiration with which many of us can identify). They would simultaneously suggest that the rhetoric of "coming out" is appropriate because being conservative puts one at risk, even as they dismiss this risk as purely fanciful (and therefore a source of humor...
...Implicit in this "humor" is the assertion that the endangerment suffered by minorities in general, and queers in particular, is also illusory. They suffer discrimination; we only cry it. We are at pains to note that no conservative has lost his job, been disowned by his family, expelled from his community of faith, barred from marriage or adoption, had every aspect of his sexual life criminalized--or, certainly, been brutally beaten to death--based solely on his political sympathies...
...Part of it is surely style--his boyish smile and ham-it-up personality and dirty sense of humor--but the brunt of McCain's appeal seems to be his message...
...leftovers garnished with Sondheim's less nourishing material and served up thematically as an odd sort of cocktail party. This Broadway revise finds the party device strengthened, but still forced, and the selection of songs improved. The new cast, led by Carol Burnett with great warmth and good humor, is creamy. Yet this remains a chilly pudding of a show that leaves one admiring Sondheim's artistry and the performers' panache, but still hungry...