Word: prankster
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...real world, memories of 9/11 give way to anthrax scares—a prankster targets Joyce’s office with an envelope filled with talc, and she suspects that it could be Marshall—the bombing of Afghanistan, renewed surges of terrorism in Israel, and the invasion of Iraq. Kalfus portrays post-bellum reality as few other 9/11 artistes have, showing how the attacks have faded into the background radiation of our country’s life, occasionally surfacing sharply in phrases like “suicide bomb” and “Orange Alert...
These credentials are fitting for Verba, known as a pundit and a prankster by colleagues...
...mada?s so ugly, she looks like a bloodsucker"). But the bit about a girl asked by a guy in a yellow fur suit to pull on his umbilical cord? on that one I was with the girl, who says, "Honestly, I haven?t the foggiest." The prankster and his two cohorts shrugs off her bafflement by explaining, "Some days people laugh, some days they don?t. Today?s skit was adult-oriented...
...slot... an ominous phone call... a scrawled drawing of a bloody figure... The evidence seems disconcertingly simple. Someone is threatening Georges (the excellent Daniel Auteuil) and his nice family. To which Haneke says, Look closer. The Austrian director, now working in France, ranks as Europe?s most provocative film prankster. And his new work, which swept the European Film Awards (Best Picture, Actor, Director and Editing) this month, is both an exercise in motal suspense and an essay on the complicity between those who create disturbing images (moviemakers) and those who take pleasure from looking at them (us). Georges...
...Spangler Building at 1 Soldiers Field Park to take note of a past domestic disturbance. The victim asked for and received a restraining order. 1:29 p.m.—An officer spotted someone in the process of clothing the John Harvard Statue with a T-shirt. The prankster was spoken to, asked to leave, and was ultimately unsuccessful in his or her attempt. 1:40 p.m.—An officer took note of the theft of a vial filled with a steroid-type drug. The estimated value of the stolen item could not be gauged...