Word: humorless
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...than who can run the fastest or shoot the straightest. The athletes?the macho brawn of an Australian swimmer, the hard-won flawlessness of a Romanian gymnast?tell you something about the places they are from. Perhaps then India's oversized and underfunded squad serves a purpose in these humorless days of professional sports and all the science, diets and doping the era brings. It reminds us that at least one nation remembers the spirit in which the modern Olympics were founded?as a contest among amateurs. And that taking part, however haplessly, is the thing that counts. After...
Another group that I’ve come to appreciate through my interactions is the secret service agents, especially in light of my previous stereotype of them as rigid and humorless. Like the advance staff, the agents work long and thankless hours with an incredible level of professionalism...
...made a business of rehabilitating and refurbishing the kitschiest moments in pop music. After a particularly humorless and unnecessary opening band, Raymond, (“The worst crowd ever!” griped Raymond’s bassist), and after fixing some initial sound difficulties that buried frontman Damien Kulash Jr.’s voice in the mix, OK Go delivered an hour of catchy pop songs that were undeniably and infectiously fun. Kulash channeled the campy spirits of Mick Jagger, Freddie Mercury and, in a glorious cover of “Hold the Line...
...holding on to many of the good friends I have made here, I found the student body as a whole to be something of a mixed-bag. Many of the people you encounter here are outrageously self-involved and, if you’ll pardon the melodramatic hypocrisy, unbearably humorless and self-righteous...
...much money your family has, where you come from. On the WB's One Tree Hill (Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.) two half brothers by the same father--one raised poor, one privileged--are rivals in their love lives and on the basketball court. It's a decent, if humorless, teen soap in the WB tradition, but TV has a harder time dealing with working-class adults. Fox's Luis (Fridays, 8:30 p.m. E.T.), starring Luis Guzman as a struggling doughnut-shop owner in Spanish Harlem, is a parade of urban stereotypes, while NBC's midseason The Tracy Morgan Show...