Word: humorizing
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...Humor is a way for me to lower the stakes," says Mark A. Kishlansky, Baird Professor of History...
Kishlansky teaches History 97a, "Sophomore History Tutorial," in the socratic method, with liberal doses of humor sprinkled...
Next, beware of humor. As Levine explains, e-mail lacks audio and visual cues, so comments that are meant to be funny are often read the wrong way. His warning might have helped when No. 9 and I got into a minor online dispute and No. 5 stepped in to patch things up. "Thanks, Mr. Kissinger," I wrote, assuming he would be amused. He was not. "Perhaps you don't know my special loathing for Kissinger," he wrote back in a long, angry missive. The ensuing chill lasted weeks...
...with righteous desperation. "Maverick:" James Garner, Jodie Foster and Gibson, all of them smiling, no doubt thinking about how much they were paid. On each poster, on each face, Gibson has added a mustache with a heavy black marker - a graphic display of his famously self-deprecating sense of humor. Foster, for one, never looked so dashing...
...back and forth at each other. They appear like a group of loners, neither fawned over by women nor paid any particular attention by anyone, just poking fun at themselves, their condition and the situations they encounter. It is there, in those moments, that Gilman uncovers the essence of humor, that it need not be on a stage or in front of a national audience, but rather it is finding lightness in the corners of bars with friends or being able to laugh at yourself when nobody is watching...