In these times, people are so happy to be amused.
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Brace yourself to be amused, disgusted, and bewildered in equal measure.
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President Trump probably won't be amused by China's latest trade figures.
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But magistrate judge Jeremiah C. Lynch does not appear to be amused.
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The Obama administration appeared to be amused by the dust-up on Wednesday.
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The printer might be amused by his typo's desert pilgrimage to brand equity.
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Or you could just poke them and be amused by the funny jiggle.
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Harry Truman — who famously said "the buck stops here" — would not be amused.
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Unlike Grumps, most young readers will be amused by the pee-filled toilets.
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And maybe Andrew was hoping Ingrid might be amused by this display of enthusiasm.
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Other times she'd be amused, maybe slightly annoyed, and decline with the encounter ending there.
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Pretty sure Rosie won't be amused by Trump cozying up to her ... even sarcastically. Bingo!
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"Olga would be amused," Mr. Peskanov says of the founder, who died six years ago.
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They are teen-agers and want to be amused by stuff actually relevant to their lives.
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Gillum, who has called for the impeachment of Trump, appeared to be amused by the question.
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With such ignorance in plain sight, how could anyone be amused by a "comedy about anti-Semitism"?
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Mr. Strezovski said he could appreciate how people might be amused at how bizarre it all is.
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By contrast, the ready-to-be-amused face of the Mona Lisa inspires no such psychological challenge.
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If you haven't heard of Kirby Jenner, prepare to be amused and confused at the same time.
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" The editor-in-chief of Majesty Magazine, Ingrid Seward, told King, "The Queen would be amused by Meghan.
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You will be scared, you will be amused, and you will be so relieved when it's all over.
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He believed that Gawker's audience would be amused by it and share the arch condescension of Daulerio's piece.
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"I want people to be amused, but after that to be challenged and start asking deeper questions," he says.
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Vontae Davis knew that his team would not be amused when he retired at halftime of a Buffalo Bills game.
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Putin must love this mess he helped create but he must be amused by the self-inflicted wounds on America.
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Some were shocked to the point of anger, while others were so stunned they could only be amused by the moment.
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I mean, I doubt I'd listen to the album myself, but if someone was playing it I'd be amused by it.
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If your child would be amused by seeing the word "underpants" in the name of a movie, this one will entertain.
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While we, along with the rest of the internet, continue to be amused by his celebrity commentary and criticism, Hadid is not.
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We can also be amused by how white people seem unable to tell that people who are obviously black are indeed black.
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"You want to build the capacity to look at yourself and your mishaps in a benevolent way and be amused," Hofmann says.
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"Nobody should be amused," Mr. Letterman told another guest, Dr. Phil, who made light of Mr. Trump's embrace of the birther movement.
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"I think if someone were to spend 50 or 60 pages putting me into a novel, I would be amused," Mr. Nguyen said.
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"Although people might be amused to see me give Willie a low blow, I ideally have no wish to do so," Branson writes.
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But the owners do seem to be amused by the fact that, despite being furious activists, their new enemies aren't very good vegans.
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I think he might be amused just to watch an administration convinced that there was something called the 'deep state' aligned against her.
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Heads of state are now more likely to be amused by talk-show hosts, and acrobats get the biggest applause in the big top.
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Sondheim is 89, and his walk that day was slow and pained, but he retains a boyishness — a willingness to amuse and be amused.
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Today it's easy to be amused at how primitive these computers seem, with their blocky graphics, tiny memories, beepy sound, and sometimes eccentric design features.
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Best for: People whose employers and/or families would not be amused by jokes about "sleeping with Chris Hemsworth"Â Price: $267 at Sideshow Collectibles
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Wellesley officials seem to be amused by the attention their town is getting, but they say the thefts are still a serious and expensive problem.
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"In the late 60s and early 70s audiences wanted not to be amused but to be exhorted, not to laugh but to march," he remembered later.
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However, it looks like we're about to get yet another chance to be amused by a different sweet treat because someone just created a chocolate museum.
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Sometimes I think I would be amused to see what the leaders of 30 years ago would have done with an email and the Maastricht rules.
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These high-empathy students were also more likely to be amused by reports that students protesting the speech had injured a bystander sympathetic to the speaker.
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For those of us who have observed them for longer, however, there is not only nothing to be afraid of — there is plenty to be amused at.
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Waiting as long as he did to assume the throne from his indomitable, censorious mother, Queen Victoria, Edward made it his prime quest in life to be amused.
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And in 1210, the famous Royal Menagerie at the Tower of London was established so that members of the court could be amused by herds of odd beasts.
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You'll be amused by how its trapezoid shape overflows your grip, you'll be happy ratcheting up its volume dial, and you'll be downright delighted by the music it makes.
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While you may get some laughs from people that have used dating apps, not everyone will be amused by a costume that reminds them of their worst ghosting experiences.
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Despite his technological genius and adventurous lifestyle, Collison still seems to be amused and amazed by the little things in life, like this coffee cup sporting a "pocket cookie."
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Maybe, though, both men—the man who almost bankrupted a country and the supreme advocate of bankers' bailouts—would be amused to see just how little we have learned.
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It's a win-win: You get the benefits and the plant gets to be amused by all the weird stuff you do around the house when nobody else is watching.
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Like Veronica Lake in "I Married a Witch" (1942), Carole Lombard in her screwball heyday, and Lauren Bacall in pretty much anything, Blunt requires an exceptionally good reason not to be amused.
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It's easy to be amused by, or put in brackets, somebody's attempts at transcendence that are different from our own, but we're all trying to find that thing that's bigger than ourselves.
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When the camera soars over a glittering underwater realm and settles on an enormous octopus pounding away at the drums, you don't need any context at all to be amused by the spectacle.
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You don't need to know the Shakespeare canon to be amused by some of these methods of death — and you should definitely mouse over the pie chart to reveal some of the labels.
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I'm not saying that the internet is bad, but it kind of sucks: On it, we can be amused by things at a distance, until they get too close to us on our daily commute.
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Or was it Trump himself who shook free the old restraints, like some kind of reverse Jonathan Edwards preaching a doctrine of sinners in the hands of a bored God who wants to be amused?
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Finally, after you've been working with the concept of narrative arc a bit, you might be amused by the cartoonist Grant Snider's "The Story Coaster," which he originally drew for The New York Times Book Review.
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Chinese propaganda chiefs did not appear to be amused that Mr. Xi had been upstaged to some extent at his own conference, and the official Chinese news media pointedly made little mention of the piano performance.
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I would make them a nest shelf up near my ceiling, and be amused by their jumping from the top of one bookcase to the next, and hanging from my shower curtain rod by their prehensile tails.
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"I suppose you could dismiss this as kind of tongue-in-cheek humor, but I don't take it that way, and I don't think most Americans will be amused," Varney says in the short segment embedded below.
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"I thought you would be amused to learn that Michaella extracted an act of penance from Chudi," Thompson wrote in a December 18 email to Russell Weatherspoon, Henry's mentor who had been present for part of the meeting.
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While the content of the texts is extremely serious, people couldn't help but be amused with the graphics, which featured ellipses, or the dreaded three dots that leave you hanging on the edge of your seat for a reply.
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Near the fake Times, you can read a memo that Kubrick sent a vice president of his production company: "I thought you'd be amused: Esquire preparing cover for newsstand showing John Kennedy, Jr. as new President of United States" in 2001.
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"Today's teenagers ... are going to be amused by the styles and the fashions of the 80's and the sort of sensibility of that earlier age," he said, adding that he was not initially aiming to make a box office smash.
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The DBA crew sharing tales of its glory days is a lot like to a group of old friends recounting past triumphs to an outsider; the outsider may be amused, but he has no clue where fact separates from collectively embellished hyperbole.
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He also discovered that Republicans were less likely to be amused by Kimmel's mockery of Sarah Palin than Democrats, providing evidence of what most people already know from personal experience: that comedy is funny until you become the butt of the joke.
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I think about how nice it would be to be amused by something as simple as chasing birds, to live a life in which your sole purpose is to be loved briefly but intensely, by people who talk to you as if I were special.
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The SEC said in its settlement that Musk arrived at $420 a share by adding 20 percent to Tesla's then-share price and rounding up to $420 because of "the significance of that number in marijuana culture, and his belief that his girlfriend would be amused by it."
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Maybe a heterosexual person at the Roman orgy might just be going at it from purely the sex angle, but if we were there, we'd be amused at the look of it, or the person who's posing and looks foolish because they want to be something that they actually are not.
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Seriously, though, if you've ever struggled with depression, insomnia, low self-esteem, the legacy of emotionally distant parents, or any kind of persistent bodily pain (in her case, a frozen shoulder), you will identify with Waldman's inner thought process, and be amused by her dark sense of humor about the whole thing.
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"We allege that Musk had arrived at the price of $420 by assuming a 20 percent premium of what Tesla's then existing share price (was), and then rounding up to $420 because of the significance of that number in marijuana culture, and his belief that his girlfriend would be amused by it," Steven Peikin, co-director of enforcement at the SEC, said during the conference.
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George W. Bush does not appear to be amused with rapper Kanye West's latest music video, "Famous," in which the former president appears naked next to Taylor Swift, Bill Cosby, Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE and Kim Kardashian.
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There is a second couple dancing in the background who appear to be amused by the scene unfolding in front of them. There is a formal feel with the clothes that the children are dressed in.
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The Life of John Sterling. London: Chapman & Hall, p. 146. Environmentalists might be amused to discover that Carlyle did indeed make up the ’barbarous’ word Environment as he could find no English translation of the German Umgebung.
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The Daily Mirror described it as a "brilliant spoof", and The Sunday Times characterized the show as "Comedy so broad it barely fits on the screen, it is hard not to be amused". The Herald Sun called it a "ruthless but spot-on parody".
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It's meant to be a throwback to glamorous old Hollywood movies.". Jordan Hoffman of TV Guide wrote: "It's virtually impossible not to be amused by this picture. Like the limitless buffet and late show with dancing girls, it's a simple pleasure, but one with guaranteed success.
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I have this madness—volition—this chosen madness to believe that I can change this world". "Storytelling is a sacred art," he emphasized. "And the irony of it is that most people—if you say that—back away. They want to be amused mostly, or have a way of passing a little time.
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Miller appeared to be amused by the crowd reaction and revelled in it, grinning and flicking his hair.Arlott, p. 42. Hutton responded by glancing Miller for a four from the final ball of the day. England were 2/121 at stumps on the third day, with Hutton and Compton still at the crease.
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She tried to reconcile her feelings of jealousy with a belief in freedom of the heart, but found it difficult.Wexler, Intimate, pp. 140–147. Two years later, Goldman began feeling frustrated with lecture audiences. She yearned to "reach the few who really want to learn, rather than the many who come to be amused".
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In addition, the segmental elements must be different in diphthongs and so when it occurs in a language, it does not contrast with . However, it is possible for languages to contrast and . Diphthongs are also distinct from sequences of simple vowels. The Bunaq language of Timor, for example, distinguishes 'exit' from 'be amused', 'dance' from 'stare at', and 'choice' from 'good'.
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It is, therefore, perhaps, scarcely to be wondered at that the > bulk of novel readers, who only read to be amused, or to "kill time", as the > phrase is, should be evilly disposed towards this brilliant writer who takes > a keen pleasure in wielding his rapier, and hitting society deftly under the > fifth rib.Ioan Williams (ed.) George Meredith: The Critical Heritage > (London: Routledge, 1995) p. 170.
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The bastion of fact is the eminently practical Mr. Gradgrind, and his model school, which teaches nothing but "Facts". Any imaginative or aesthetic subjects are absent from the curriculum, and analysis, deduction and mathematics are emphasised. Fancy, the opposite of Fact, is epitomised by Sleary's circus. Sleary is reckoned a fool by Gradgrind and Bounderby, but it is Sleary who understands that people must be amused.
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The Nottinghamshire supporters were still angry with how their players had been removed and were not happy that Miller was able to do something they saw to be equivalent. For his part, Miller appeared to be amused by the crowd reaction and revelled in it, grinning and flicking his hair.Arlott, p. 42. However, Hutton had the last word, glancing Miller down to fine leg for a four from the final ball of the day.
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Able to wriggle free, Brian grabs the clone's laser gun, but cannot tell the real Stewie from the clone. He kills the Stewie who fails to be amused by the sight of his own feet, a peculiarity of the real Stewie. As Stewie and Brian begin to walk home, Stewie turns back to the camera with a malicious grin and bright yellow cat eyes, to the sound of Vincent Price's diabolical laughter, a reference to Michael Jackson's Thriller video.
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The book, indeed, reads more like an exaggerated parody of popular detective fiction than a serious essay in the type. But it certainly provides plenty of fun for the reader who is prepared to be amused. If that was the intention of the authoress, she has succeeded to perfection".The Scotsman, 17 March 1927 (page 2) Robert Barnard: "This thriller was cobbled together at the lowest point in Christie's life, with the help of her brother- in-law.
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According to Ulf Aschen, "Witty, attractive, well-bred, and well read, Happy Valleyites were relentless in their pursuit to be amused, more often attaining this through drink, drugs, and sex." The height of the Happy Valley set's influence was in the late 1920s. The recession sparked by the 1929 Wall Street stock market crash greatly decreased the number of new arrivals to the Colony of Kenya and the influx of capital. Nevertheless, by 1939 Kenya had a white community of 21,000 people.
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She collaborated with TopShop on three limited-edition collections, and released her first personal ready-to- wear garments. In Feb 2009 Joy had her first solo exhibition, The Visitors Must Be Amused, at the AVA gallery in NYC. Joy asked associates to write a description of a female being and then designed a costume representing each definition, including one of an alien goddess gown with a whip. In September 2009 Joy costumes were featured in a Where The Wild Things Are pop-up shop in Los Angeles.
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Yuna is a friendly, ordinary and sensible young woman, demonstrably more level-headed than her friends, who tend to sedately sit out, be amused by and often reminds them of the mundane reality behind their dramatics. When she and Rai are introduced to video games, she apparently is quite competent despite it being her first try. It has been hinted that she has a crush on M-21 after he becomes a guard at her high school. ;Lim Sui Sui is a pretty popular pop idol who is studying at Ye Ran High School.
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PC Zone likened the game to a hybrid of Stunt Car Racer and NASCAR Racing. Writing for Computer Gaming World, M. Clarkson commented that the game puts an emphasis on simplicity over detail, and added that players would be amused over jumping in the air and traversing the mud. Jason C. Carnevale of Game Revolution was surprised at its graphical quality, saying driving through the circuits is visually pleasant with billboards, stands, automobiles, barbeque pits, and Winnebagos. He viewed the controls as comfortable and appreciated the game's multiple shortcuts.
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The counit axioms of a coring follow from the identity element condition on multiplication in R. The reader will be amused, or at least edified, to check that (H, R) is a left bialgebroid. In case R is an Azumaya algebra, in which case H is isomorphic to R ⊗ R, an antipode comes from transposing tensors, which makes H a Hopf algebroid over R. Another class of examples comes from letting R be the ground field; in this case, the Hopf algebroid (H, R) is a Hopf algebra.
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He enjoyed life to the full, but he had a certain code to which he adhered. Briefly, it was this: he was always prepared to be amused by a girl who was "goey", provided she was sufficiently attractive, but no girl of the stricter class had ever had cause to regret getting to know Bobby Wingate. There were certain unwritten rules in the game, and this was one of them. Unlike so many of his contemporaries, he barred married women -- which is to say he respected them even when they didn't respect themselves.
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This friendship is tested by Hyacinth's tactless and unthinking remarks, which usually involve Elizabeth's dexterity, clothes, car, appearance, and her daughter's intelligence. Liz likes Richard quite dearly, and has deep sympathy for him; the two seem discreetly fond of each other. Liz feels pity for Hyacinth's and Richard's son, Sheridan, as well, believing "he never really stood a chance" with Hyacinth for a mother. Liz is also unsure whether to be amused by or disapproving of her brother's frequent attempts to avoid and/or exact revenge on Hyacinth.
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Humour (British English) or humor (American English; see spelling differences) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours (Latin: humor, "body fluid"), controlled human health and emotion. People of all ages and cultures respond to humour. Most people are able to experience humour—be amused, smile or laugh at something funny (such as a pun or joke)—and thus are considered to have a sense of humour.
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Nabokov's original version of Pnin, which he sent to Viking, consisted of ten chapters and ended with Pnin's untimely death from the heart problem he suffers at the beginning of the novel. However, editor Pascal Covici rejected the idea and Nabokov heavily revised the novel, then titling the work My Poor Pnin, before finally settling on the current title. According to Boyd, Pnin is Nabokov's response to Don Quixote, which he had read a year earlier. Nabokov lambasted Cervantes for his cruelty to Quixote, seeming to encourage the reader to be amused by the eponymous character's pain and humiliation.
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"In addition the exhibition of cuttings, the visitors may be amused with the music of the panharmonicon—an instrument which was made in this town by Mr. Wm. Goodrich, and which is not altogether unknown to the public."In Boston, "the gallery also contains an excellent panharmonicon, composed of over 200 musical instruments; and other exhibitions well worthy the attention of the scientific, as well as the curious." cf. Columbian Centinel American Federalist; Date: 11-16-1825Also exhibited in the gallery in Boston: "a bust of our distinguished townsman, G. Stuart, Esq. from Mr. Browere, the sculptor." cf.
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But she was determined to earn their approval, especially as the British government's foreign policy was producing some resentment among the French. During a visit in March 1825, the Duke of Devonshire provided his sister with advice on French culture as well as her deportment and appearance. She invested in the latest fashions and became effective at managing the French elite, having come to the conclusion that they were like "children" whose "object is to be amused and received". After six months in Paris the new ambassadress had reached a point of amused acceptance with her social surroundings.
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Dr. Digby C. Anderson (born 25 May 1944) is the founder and former director (until 2004Digby Anderson, Social Affairs Unit Why oldies should be amused and amusing 24 February 2005; Accessed 2 May 2008) of the Social Affairs Unit, a public policy organisation/economic think-tank created in 1980. In addition to this role, Anderson served as a long-time contributor to several conservative American and British newspapers and magazines including The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph, as well as The American Spectator, The New Criterion, and National Review. He is a priest in the Church of England.
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The writers attempted to alleviate the situation by devising an ongoing on-screen rivalry between Chelsea and Martha, with the hopes that Stewart would be amused and eventually agree to guest-star. Although there was a vague awareness of Stewart's disdain, it was mostly shielded from the cast and crew. There was a joyous atmosphere on the set, and McKeon later remarked that she had some of the best times of her life working on the show. However, as production was underway, Joseph Maher was diagnosed with a brain tumor and began losing his peripheral vision, which forced him to use a cane.
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"Ostrovsky is a talented man, but his plays for me are unbearable. I come to the theatre to rest from my hard work expecting to be amused, but Ostrovsky's plays leave me depressed and distraught," the Tsar complained, according to the actor Fyodor Burdin. After the much-mangled Minin has found its way back to the Imperial Theatres' stage, Ostrovsky followed on with more historical dramas: Voyevoda (1866), The False Dmitry and Vasily Shuisky (1866) and Tushino (1867). In 1867 Stepan Gedeonov (the official who once helped him with The Sled) became the director of Imperial Theatres and in just six weeks Ostrovsky wrote Vasilisa Melentyeva, using Gedeonov's script.
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It may > also be said that neither the man about town nor the authors of the best of > our short stories will be deeply moved by this book. The intellectual lower > middle classes may be amused by it, and if there are enough of them, Mr. > Wilson may make money. But it is probably that his harvest will be in > countries less near the centres of civilization than New York. The plot of > the operetta is not bad, but it fails to develop the expected hilarity, and > except for a few humorous lines of Mr. Wilson's own, there is not much to > laugh at.
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Jeanne was invited to the palace, and the king became entranced by her beauty, nature, and ample bosom. When the king began all the more falling deeper in love with her, Lebel began to become alarmed, knowing the king might not be amused of Jeanne's past. When Lebel's conscience could take no more, he divulged all about Jeanne to the king, who scolded him harshly to have her married off to gain a title in order for her to become next royal mistress. This he did, but died soon after in 1768, some say either by poisoning or for taking the king's scolding too badly.
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Ebsen joined her in Atlantic City; he tried getting work at the various clubs and at the minstrel show at Steel Pier but was unsuccessful at getting hired for any entertainment work. Ebsen was allowed to dance at Babette's with his sister one evening because it was thought the patrons would be amused by it. Vaudevillian Benny Davis was in the audience that night. Davis was compiling a cast to work at various movie theaters throughout the US. He signed both Ebsens, and they worked for some time dancing at theaters in the eastern US. The Ebsens then went on to work in the Ziegfeld Follies.
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" In USA Today, Susan Wloszczyna wrote, "If you've ever had a job, you'll be amused by this paean to peons." Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "C" rating and criticized it for feeling "cramped and underimagined". In his review for The Globe and Mail, Rick Groen wrote: "Perhaps his TV background makes him unaccustomed to the demands of a feature-length script (the ending seems almost panicky in its abruptness), or maybe he just succumbs to the lure of the easy yuk...what began as discomfiting satire soon devolves into silly farce." In his review in The New York Times, Stephen Holden wrote, "It has the loose-jointed feel of a bunch of sketches packed together into a narrative that doesn't gather much momentum.
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Moretina served as president of a firm that distributed illegal video gambling machines. He and his business partner, purported mob underboss Peter J. Simone, operated the Be Amused Vending and Amusement Co. Moretina is the son of Charles Moretina, who was convicted in the 1980s for skimming Las Vegas casino gambling receipts. Prior to the indictment, six individuals pleaded guilty in connection with the investigation, including three – Vincent Civella and brothers Michael and Anthony Sansone – who are the son and grandsons of former Kansas City boss Anthony "Tony Ripe" Civella. According to Scott Burnstein's Gangster Report website (see State of the Syndicate: the Kansas City Mafia Today), the Kansas City mob is on its last legs with 12 made men or less.
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The statue of Lenin became a Fremont landmark and object of curiosity, representing the quirky nature of the artistic neighborhood, whose motto is Libertas Quirkas — freedom to be peculiar. Like the Fremont Troll and the Waiting for the Interurban sculpture, the Lenin statue has often been decorated, appropriated, or vandalized with various intentions, both whimsical and serious. Knute Berger, acknowledging that "we are supposed to be amused" by the "hippie whimsy" of a Soviet symbol in the middle of an American city, said that seeing the statue cannot help but remind us of the killing and repression Lenin inspired. But Berger reflected that perhaps the meaning of this Soviet relic is the opposite, that it is "a trophy of Western triumphalism", representing the victory over communism and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Joe Leydon of Variety magazine wrote: "The mix of funny business and rough stuff isn't always smooth, but the target audience likely will be amused." Nick de Semlyen of Empire magazine wrote: "Some nice comic beats and a sinister Andy Garcia turn make this far more watchable that the fratty conceit might suggest." Bilge Ebiri of New York Magazine wrote: "Let’s Be Cops has its moments, but it in no way distinguishes itself." Time magazine placed Let's Be Cops fifth in their ranking of the 10 worst movies of 2014, stating: "The initial setup of Let's Be Cops could have been a funny premise for a B-plot on a show ... but instead, the idea is stretched into a never-ending feature that fails to find any chemistry between Johnson and Wayans".
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In October 1852 editor Charles Frederick Briggs sent a circular out to writers, including Melville, announcing the plan "to publish an Original periodical of a character different from any now in existence", inviting him, being among "the best talent of the country", to submit contributions to the new monthly that would only print American contributions.Quoted in Miller (1956), 318 This was Putnam's Monthly Magazine that first appeared in January 1853. With the ambition to be, in Perry Miller's words, "the vehicle of home literature" came the determination to pay authors a handsome sum.Miller (1956), 317 For three years the magazine was successful, in Miller's estimation because of the brilliance of both the articles and of the editing--primarily by Briggs, who understood that "'A man buys a Magazine to be amused'".
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214 Even Queen Victoria herself was said to be amused when Mary Anne commented, in response to a remark about some lady's pale complexion, "I wish you could see my Dizzy in his bath!" Once, at a house party where Lord Hardinge, a great soldier of the day, was in the room next to the Disraelis, Mary Anne announced at breakfast that she had slept the night before between the greatest soldier (Hardinge) and the greatest orator (Disraeli) of their times: Lady Hardinge was definitely not amused. The Disraeli family tomb, Hughenden Disraeli had been unimpressed by Mary Lewis when he first met her, but he came to understand that she was shrewder than her outward manner had led him to believe. She was a great help to him in editing the books he wrote, and spent 30 years taking care of him.
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" English feminist and writer Mona Caird, was so deeply moved by the book that she wrote Moore a personal letter, declaring: > It leaves me in a glow of enthusiasm and hope. It seems like the embodiment > of years of almost despairing effort and pain of all of us who have felt > these things. That which we have been thinking and feeling — some in one > direction and some in another, some in fuller understanding and breadth, > others in little flashes of insight here and there — all seems gathered > together, expressed, and given form and color and life in your wonderful > book. G. M. A.'s review in The American Naturalist, was less positive: "[w]hile agreeing with the author that 'the art of being kind' is in sore need of cultivation among us, one cannot but be amused at the mixture of fact and error, observation and travelers' tales, seriousness of statement and straining after absurd expressions, that characterizes this not unreadable book.
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" The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that: > While it would be ungracious not to acknowledge Hollywood's intention to > congratulate Australia in "The Man From Down Under", the compliment becomes > hidden in a comedy of errors errors in local colour, slang, accent, dress, > and character. The film is so badly off the scent In most respects that it > is impossible not to be amused by it, provided that one can survive the > irritations caused by its inaccuracies. But there is a more serious aspect > Perhaps the producérs made no effort to make this a film of types but > audiences in other countries will no doubt be ready enough to accept these > 'Australians" as authentic and charactersistic. Charles Laughton, > uncomfortably wrestling with a variety of unfamiliar accents, represents an > Australian as a gambler, a confidence trickstet, a hard drinker, and a > fellow whose window-dressing of tough talk cannot conceal the fact that he > is at heart a childlike and maudlin sentlmentalist.
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This episode featured tattooist Danny Williams, a local artist who was considered to be one of the top ten tattoo artists in the United States. Williams worked on an elaborate tattoo on the back of one of his clients while answering questions from Jim Sharky and "Liberace" (Connecticut actor Lance Fritz). The episode featured extremely close-up views of the tattooing as it progressed during the program. Although he was a serious artist, Williams had a good sense of humor about many of the questions Sharky asked him during the episode. However, Williams did not seem to be amused when Sharky mentioned that “Liberace” wanted a tattoo of his penis on his penis – but he wanted the tattoo to be larger than the actual penis. When Williams died on January 20, 2009 (almost 17 years after his one-time appearance on The Lone Shark), his obituary wrongly listed the name of The Lone Shark as ”The Lone Wolf Show’.
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