Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...usually think of the lucky ones on sitcoms or HBO specials. But Kyle shows the world of the unknown laughmakers, with their nervous hands on a microphone, the sweat beading on their brows, the poorly timed delivery of a punchline-where the comedy sometimes isn't encapsulated in the clever joke, but in the tragedy of a comic hung out to dry by the silent pursed lips of his audience...
...Kaleidoscape wastes no time in introducing its star. He makes an appearance sans makeup before the show even starts; then, in a clever opening number, the entire cast helps Larible get into costume and in character. It's like seeing one of the great mysteries of the circus revealed before your eyes...
...What Americans seem to regard as dirty cheating is clever, high-paid lawyers going into the courts to try to actually force judges to rule on what's legal and what's not, or even to make a little law themselves. Now, that's not fair. We're comfortable with buying or wrestling votes, or busing in mobs of protesters, but trying to use the courts to get people to abide by statutes, or to clear up murky ones, well, that's dirty pool...
...reporter and said, "Listen to this." Instead of the usual song, a Van Halen number, the speakers in the hanger exploded with the sound of a different tune: Fleetwood Mac's Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow). Reporters started laughing when they heard it. Such a clever move, they said to each other, to play Clinton's campaign theme song at a Bush rally. In Arkansas! But suddenly, with the ear-ripping screech of a needle being dragged across an old record album, the song stopped. And then a new song blared from the speakers. The crowd erupted in cheers...
...individuality of the states, indeed. If presidential elections weren't about the states, we wouldn't be in this fix. The Founding Fathers created a clever structure of the whole where everyone is free to be you and me. Everything in the design of the Union tugs away from the Union, which may be why the Union tugs back from time to time...