Word: prankster
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Since I first set foot on this campus three and some odd years ago, I have been known as a joker. I’m the goof, the comedian, the sarcastic guy, the prankster. The Crimson, an organization to which I have devoted countless hours since freshman year, held a dinner earlier this semester to welcome the paper’s new slate of executives and part with its seniors. While many of my fellow outgoing executives were eulogized for their dedication to paper and their contribution to its content, I was reassured that my “building presence?...
...read here. I'll just say that I can't denounce Moore for not persuading fence-sitters at home because I don't think he was trying to - as if any American could be swayed now by evidence less stark than body bags. The Left's prime prankster was engaging in classic browbeatery, in the bullying, exaggerated, often funny right-wing-talk-radio tradition. I wonder why the Left must always be modulated, so sweetly whisperingly NPR, when the Right has made its voice heard by shouting. And if you didn't care for Moore's hectoring as political discourse...
...years, at his peak winning 80% of the viewing audience. Eventually, TV grew up--anyway, it grew older --and by the mid-'50s Berle's innocent vulgarity had given way to more domestic, less frantic fare. But his ghost still haunts the tube. The Fear Factor daredevils, the Jackass prankster-masochists, the talk-show mutants who will do anything for a laugh or a shock--all are the nieces and nephews of Uncle Miltie. --By Richard Corliss...
...sniper calls the Rev. William Sullivan of St. Ann's Catholic Church in Ashland, Va., above, raving, "I am God." In garbled speech, the caller refers to the D.C.-area shootings as well as a crime in Alabama. Thinking he has a prankster on the line, Sullivan hangs up and does not report the call...
...answer turns out to be both. In Italy, where the movie opened in a record 860 theaters last Friday, audiences got their first glimpse of a film that unites, from a century apart, two prankster icons of Tuscan culture. The country's pride in Benigni's success is immense, but so is its stake in the purity of the Pinocchio story. And Benigni's Pinocchio - directed by and starring the maestro, with the same production team as Life is Beautiful and a budget of [EURO] 40 million, a record for an Italian film - makes good on his pledge to stay...