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Moore's style takes some getting used to. Experimentation within the medium is the name of the game here, and the author seems to enjoy tossing out symbols for their own sake, creating linguistic tricks, and taking flat-out risks--at once point, the word "Ha!" is repeated without interruption over nearly two entire pages. But this Joycean wordplay, disconcerting at first, eventually becomes clear for what it usually is--humor. And that's where the stories get their power. On a surface level, they're a series of often depressing vignettes about dissatisfied, disillusioned adults, but underneath...
Okay. It happens to all of us. There are some bands that we've all heard of, yet they're perpetually relegated to the tips of tongues. For example, there's The Cars, A-Ha, Donny Osmond, Club Nouveau...and Depeche Mode. Now granted, there are some staunch fans out there, but the rest of us know Depeche Mode in passing, if at all. But trust me, we've all heard Depeche Mode. Yes, even you. Get your hands on the single "Enjoy the Silence." That's right! They played them at the eighth grade dance...
...came to her passion through aversion. "I used to be petrified of the sea," she confides. A major in the Jordanian army, Basma had just completed her parachuting course in 1993 when her commanding officer teased her, "Ha, ha, but you'll never learn to dive." Rising to the challenge, she became the first Jordanian woman to qualify as a navy diver. And she licked her fear. "I was afraid because I didn't know what was below the surface of the water. Now I know," she says...
...there isn't a deeper correlation between living in Pittsburgh and depression. Jeers abound. Some wag posts something he found elsewhere online: a list of the Top 10 Reasons Why the Internet Makes You Depressed. "Reason No. 1: She was *really* a 14-year-old boy from Sheboygan, Wisconsin!" Ha ha--way to steal someone else's idea and get credit for it. Did I mention that I spend a lot of time online...
Enjoy "The Manchurian Candidate"? So did Mossad, it seems -- too much, if a report in an Israeli newspaper is to be believed. Ha'aretz, normally a sedate read, went wild Wednesday with claims that the Cold War flick inspired Israeli intelligence agents to hypnotize a young Arab prisoner into attempting to assassinate Yasser Arafat nearly 30 years ago. The plot, allegedly the brainchild of Major Benjamin Shalit, chief psychologist in the Israeli navy, seems too ridiculous for words -- the 28-year old Palestinian, codename "Fathi," was supposedly brainwashed and dispatched over the border with an exploding two-way radio...