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Basking in popularity or infamy, as the case may be, has its advantages and disadvantages, but it certainly provides opportunities for a good laugh, or so physics concentrator Robert O. Bork '89 learned when he went to his mailbox last Thursday...
...that hope diminishes as it becomes painfully obvious that Darlene and Joe are simply too weak to cope with life on the street. Darlene's weakness is an overpowering naivete, which Grad conveys with nervous energy, a squeaky voice, a too-loud laugh and a skyward gaze. She is usually effective, though her histrionics sometimes reach the point of parody and make her look like Ellen Greene's skid-row princess in Little Shop of Horrors...
Imagine this. You are a senior at Currier House on your way to meet your new acting senior tutor. Expecting a grey-haired, bespectacled professor, you open the door--and find your ex-section leader from Chem 5. Don't laugh, it could happen...
Carlson said he went on to lead a task force on OPEC-induced energy shortages and to run unsuccessfully for Senate, before taking the top post at the National Association of Realtors, the largest PAC in the U.S. With a laugh, he said he accepted the position "on behalf of making democracy work...
...Viet Nam years, there was not much to laugh at, and comedy was ripe for revolution. The first generation of kids raised on TV, which gobbled up comedy material and spat it out as pabulum, had reached their majority just as the evening news was topping their grisliest nightmare jokes. To be an angry young comic was, it seemed then, to engage psychotic adults on their own terms. The only answer was to drop out of the comic's traditional adversary relationship to power and, instead, parade an anarchic childishness. Their banner might have read HELL...