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...expect everyone to play well against us, because we’re Harvard,” Chu said with a laugh, “We beat them pretty handily last year, 4-0, but I wasn’t surprised because they had the potential to play well...
...looking at old porn: you can't expect people who had body hair and no Pilates to seem hot now. But if you give yourself a chance to settle into it, as any good New Yorker reader trained on 5,000-word stories about ketchup would, you start to laugh at even the 1925 section of The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker. The rhythms might be slower, the references outdated and the attitude more restrained, but funny, it turns out, stays funny. Old porn, it turns out, also gets funny...
...real proof that humor is immutable isn't that you still shamefully laugh at a 1972 cartoon in which a Chinese warrior says, "That banquet was most delicious, and yet now, somehow, once again I feel the pang of hunger." It's that every week Mankoff has to reject great submissions because the research department sends him typed index cards enumerating similar jokes made in New Yorker cartoons over the past 79 years. Seriously, people, let go of the deserted island...
...culture that often discourages it - "Ambition is legitimized when it's fulfilled," he says - and takes the Chirac comparisons as a compliment. "To be compared to a man who served two terms as Prime Minister and was elected President twice, I've heard worse," he says with a laugh. Sarkozy says his priority for 2007 is avoid a repeat of the divisions on the right that have led to lost conservative presidencies and parliamentary majorities in the past. He is adamant that if in 2007 "Jacques Chirac is the right's best candidate to win, I will support him." Asked...
...Outkast lyrics (“shake it like a Polaroid picture,” he hums at one point) and waxing faux-political, Russell has finally come clean. The secret behind the tangled existential web of Huckabees is that there is no secret—it makes the director laugh, and that’s good enough...