Word: humored
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Falsettoland The conclusion of composer-lyricist William Finn's brilliant minimalist trilogy about a man's struggle for sexual identity blends the same style of daffy Manhattan humor (about nouvelle kosher cuisine, opulent bar mitzvah parties and "the lesbians from next door") with the newfound and baffling pain of AIDS...
Perhaps the most insidious consequence of skimping on sleep is the irritability that increasingly pervades society. Weariness corrodes civility and erases humor, traits that ease the myriad daily frustrations, from standing in supermarket lines to refereeing the kids' squabbles. Without sufficient sleep, tempers flare faster and hotter at the slightest offense...
...Grinch Stole Christmas provides a perfect cap to the evening's entertainment, combining innovation and humor with a healthy little moral. Although Bial's execution is not perfect throughout these three one-acts, one cannot fault his Christmas vision...
...also accomplished as a compiler of Russian jokes, which differ from Western humor by being much drier and often rather clunky, but are always pregnant with political satire...
Gorbachev and a whole generation of Sovietpoliticians who grew up under Stalin and now fillthe highest echelons of Soviet politics also don'tsee the humor in all this...