Word: humorizing
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...really wry sense of humor. That'll definitely be a downgrade from [Rudenstine]," Podesta laughs...
...both step-dance movements and spirituals. During the concert, virtuoso performers nonchalantly step from the line to exhibit their special talents. Each soloist's voice projects like several musical instruments playing at once. Verse after verse propels the audience on a voyage through spiritual lament and human urges, raw humor and subtle jabs, inheritance squabbles and political rivalry. The pendulum of elation and sorrow swings throughout...
Most of the humor of the night came from watching Democrats disoriented by the absence of Clinton and Republicans giddy at the thought of hearing, after eight years, "And now for the Democratic response." Dick Armey and Tom DeLay, standing next to each other, were bouncing up and down and looked like they would have hugged each other if they didn't think it would cause them to go to Hell. Meanwhile, Phil Gramm's body literally jiggled as he applauded. They just don't make cowboys the way they used to. Halfway through the speech, I realized that some...
...This one did. Bush's inaugural was hyperpoetic, filled with rococo imagery of "ghosts in the storm" and "travelers in Jericho." This time, it was plainspoken like the man: A little bit funny, a little bit tough. It was Andover and Midland. It had West Texas touches of humor but also echoes of Bush's grandfather, Connecticut sdenator Prescott Bush. When Dubya said of America "to whom much is given much is expected," he could have been talking about himself and his own privileged background. His talk about the nobility of government service was more Grandpa than Reagan...
Rather than remaining in the audience with the other final club members and dates, Novak, who was attending the show "Fangs for the Memories" with other members of the Harvard Lampoon, the semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, decided to one-up the "usual heckling" by dressing in drag and joining the show...