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...newspaper where Bridget herself was created in a spoof column by Fielding). Bridget falling over herself to ask Firth about the diving scene in Pride and Prejudice ("what I mean is did you ever have to take the shirt off and... and put another one on?") is yet another laugh-out-loud moment. And Bridget achieves success as a freelance TV journalist in the novel because viewers relate to her nervousness, just as the whole Bridget phenomenon was in large part due to an instant empathetic relation to Bridget's foibles...
...comments being hurled past me and at the silence of the people around me, battled against a startling resurgence of the shame and fear that I often felt when in the closet. Part of me wanted nothing more than to be straight, to have the option to just laugh or sit silently by, knowing that the bigotry filling the room was not directed at me. Part of me hoped desperately that none of the people spewing these comments knew that...
...Cornish and his friends, beatings induced more amusement than trauma. "I don't think [corporal punishment] is cruel at all," he said. "It's a good laugh to look back on. We'd all get caned and we'd go back to the bathroom. We'd pull down our pants and see who got the worst...
...Carlos says that the Harvard students he drives are almost always friendly and polite. His one criticism refers to a familiar, time-honored tradition of Harvard conversation: the interminable whine. "They're always complaining that (their classes) are too hard," he says with laugh. "I understand that they've got a lot of work...
...This means, of course, that we must get the small details out of the way. The 152nd installment of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, The Jewel of Denial, thankfully does not stray from the tried and true Pudding formula--glittery costumes, terrible puns, a theater full of drunk alums to laugh when no one else does. But do we still love it? Of course we do. Who wouldn't? The Pudding transcends theater, transcends critical scrutiny, even transcends the magnifying glass of one Dan Wagner '03 (the HRDC wishes it were as transcendent...