Word: humorizing
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During the 1960s," Andy Warhol once said, "I think people forgot what emotions were supposed to be, and I don't think they've ever remembered." Warhol's words are belied by the strong sensations - humor, outrage, nostalgia - that reverberate through "Les Années Pop," the landmark exhibit that opened March 15 at Paris' Centre Pompidou. For if it can often be difficult to seize the meaning behind a given piece of Pop (short for popular) Art, this show's great strength is to put 500 works of art, architecture, fashion, design and film into the context...
...Heard the one about the comedy website that actually makes you giggle? Surf on over to Jester: The Online Joke Recommender at shadow.ieor.berkeley.edu/humor. The site combines sophisticated statistical analysis with a database of rib ticklers. After homing in on your sense of humor through a series of test jokes - How many men does it take to screw in a light bulb? (Answer: er ... better go to the Jester website; this is a family magazine) - it serves up jokes especially tailored to fit your funny bone...
...Since no one expects the awards themselves to generate much excitement, more depends on the host than ever before, particularly since this year Steve Martin was going to lift the schmaltz-coated fist of Billy Crystal. Martin, who's lately focused on his ar-teest side, writing humor for The New Yorker and plays for the stage, seemed to promise a brainier level of humor. Which, as David Letterman and, more recently, the Grammy's Jon Stewart can attest, you can usually count on to be cruelly rewarded at any L.A. awards show...
...their big dreams. In the past year, the combined value of all nasdaq stocks has fallen by more than $3 trillion. On this side of the Atlantic, the combined value of stocks in London's ftse techMARK 100 index has dropped by over $93 billion. In the markets, black humor has replaced boundless optimism, and the word dotcom has become first dotbomb and then dotgone...
...which sounds like good news for Cheney. "I very much enjoy my job, am having a very good time--don't consider it stressful," he told reporters last week, less than 24 hours after he was released from the hospital. And clearly Cheney's puckish sense of humor has suffered no blockage. "The stress level is a lot tougher when you're doing something you don't like, like being a reporter...