It’s Only a Joke. Or Is It? at izbrano

najnovejše

It’s Only a Joke. Or Is It?

WS Journal - Old-fashioned joke-telling, done face to face, is a species of performance art, in which intonation, timing and often the use of foreign accents are decisive. You can’t do a parrot with a Yiddish accent joke

Objavljeno pod življenje s slogom, kultura in šolstvo |

ni odzivov na “It’s Only a Joke. Or Is It?”

RSS za ta prispevek povezava na prispevek

ni odzivov

odziv na članek

preberite še

Has technology made it impossible to have an affair?

Independent - Mobile phones, BlackBerrys, emails, social networking… Never before has it been so easy to cheat on a partner. But has technology made it simply too difficult for philanderers to cover their tracks? With evidence suggesting that fewer people are undertaking long-term extramarital love affairs, Nick Harding peers beneath the sheets and [...]

ni odzivov »

Sun, sex and the dark side of The Med

Independent - Thousands of young Brits flock to the Greek islands each year in search of sun, sex and serious drinking. But as Charlotte Philby finds out, there’s a darker underbelly to the revelry.

ni odzivov »

Carla is the hunter, not the hunted

Vanity Fair - Just months after his May 2007 election, French president Nicolas Sarkozy faced growing criticism over his stalled reforms, flashy style, and stormy divorce. The last straw should have been his whirlwind remarriage, to an Italian heiress, ex-model, and singer who had past liaisons with Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton, [...]

ni odzivov »

Alcohol tax leads to surge in personal imports from Estonia

Helsingin Sanomat - Personal imports of alcoholic beverages from abroad has grown significantly since the rise in alcohol taxation at the beginning of the year. In the first four months of 2008 imports by passengers had grown by about ten per cent over the same time in 2007. The trend continued in [...]

ni odzivov »

The obsession with results harms children’s education

Independent - A report by the think-tank Civitas is the latest study to suggest a growing number of schools are “gaming” the exam system in order to flatter their performance in Government-published statistics.

ni odzivov »

Classifying French wine in the age of globalization

IHT, by Edward Lewine - Things have not been easy for Guy-Petrus Lignac since February 2007, when he and eight other vineyard owners filed an infamous lawsuit that rattled the global market for Bordeaux wine and set the normally peaceful village of St. Émilion at war with itself. “He’s a good friend of [...]

ni odzivov »

The Marathon Man of Pop

NY Times - Four decades into a career as the sequined king of soft rock, celebrated in his 1970s peak as much for his rakish growl and helmet of wavy hair as for hits like “Sweet Caroline” and “Song Sung Blue,” Neil Diamond is enjoying something of a career renaissance.

ni odzivov »