Word: slapstick
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...believed in the curing power of humor, especially slapstick. One of his favorite routines was mimicking awkward hospital volunteers who invariably said the wrong thing. When a leg amputee was convulsing in so much pain he couldn't talk, Jim handed him a chocolate shake and a three-by-five-inch index card with a scribbled message: "That will be $5. Bless you." But he mainly used treats to break the ice. After a couple of shakes, amputees were asking questions of the man who walked on two fake legs and worked for the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs...
...Olympia” (required texts for anyone seeking to understand film history), to hilarious German romantic comedies from the 1930s (unfortunately, turns out they’re totally pro-Nazi). “Munchhausen” is a psychedelic dreamscape of circa-1945 slapstick, and the Oscar-winning “Mrs. Miniver” will make you laugh right before you start to cry. (Seriously.)More importantly, the course material touches on philosophy, postmodernism, and theories of mass media and communication. For the Nazis, image was king–and their use of the movies to further political ends...
...there. Of course, there are the obvious jokes about brain surgery ("Well, it wasn't exactly rocket science") and about those wires in my head ("Can you hear me now?"). There is Dada ("I am the Defense Minister of Poland. Who the hell are you?"). And slapstick ("I feel as if I've lost 10 pounds ... uh oh"). I'm still working...
...there. Of course, there are the obvious jokes about brain surgery ("Well, it wasn't exactly rocket science") and about those wires in my head ("Can you hear me now?"). There is Dada ("I am the Defense Minister of Poland. Who the hell are you?"). And slapstick ("I feel as if I've lost 10 pounds ... uh oh"). I'm still working...
...McCord award is not the only honor she’s racked up this past year. In October, she won the jury prize for best student animation at the New England Film and Video Festival. Her submission, “Wish you were Here,” is less slapstick than her Harvard-oriented animations—focusing on travel and nostalgia, Wilson also won the History and Science Department’s Rotschild Prize for best undergraduate thesis. She wrote on bird migration. After graduating, Wilson and her roommate are headed to Mexico for 10 days to celebrate. Afterwards...