But for every idiotic Morad, we also have two prankish Cohens.
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But, over time, his plots would become ever more prankish, impish, outlandish.
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This is Mr. Echols's other mode, prankish and fond of dumb jokes.
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And their prankish camaraderie made fans feel like members of their extended social circle.
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These images have a cheeky, prankish quality, suggesting an unstuffy, even iconoclastic lark ahead.
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That prankish spirit reigns onstage, where His Royal Badness is at his hot, erotic best.
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The effect here is compounded by a prankish yet gripping touch in Mr. Cairns's brilliant staging.
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I know my Beatles and my NOISES OFF, and greatly appreciated some of the prankish winks like CUSTARD PIE and JAMES JOYCE.
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He's a low-ranking devil, a corporate Hell architect out on his first big assignment, overseeing a prankish experimental torture cul-de-sac.
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DedSec is a hacking group, and they do a bunch of prankish things to show corporate America where it can shove its surveillance apparatus.
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Without a break, he then played Beethoven's Sonata No. 18 in E-flat, a joyous, sometimes prankish piece that you don't hear too often.
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Beneath its prankish or weird surfaces — a set by Nautical Almanac included some creatively guided hypnotherapy — Trip Metal was just as history-minded as Movement.
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Not just D'Souza but an entire cohort of young right-wingers were formed by the campus wars of the 1980s, a milieu that rewarded prankish provocateurs.
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Obfuscation, the first book-length look at the topic, contains a wealth of ideas for prankish disobedience, analysis-frustrating techniques, and other methods of collective protest.
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Cohen bears an uncanny resemblance to the late Andy Kaufman, and some of his antics over the years would work well in a skit from the cult comic's prankish repertoire.
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Part of why Wurm's prankish one minute sculptures never quite get old is that we humans, the butts of his jokes, make a habit of walking right into them—and enjoying it.
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Commissioned by a fashion magazine, the prankish image alludes to the perils of urban life and the daily performances staged in public space, which gain urgency and shape from the presence of the camera.
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Could it be the supervillain of the Italian silent feature "Filibus," a prankish, technology-savvy jewel thief who repeatedly confounds a famous detective and, also a master of disguise, is in fact a woman?
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Despite there being no image on the screen and knowing that none will appear, I still look ahead for most of A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture, Louise Lawler's prankish expanded cinema experiment.
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The tracking system would also gauge their reactions to the protagonist, to see if they preferred that her actions have serious consequences (say, putting lives at risk) or prankish ones (defacing an official Web site).
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I'm not talking about the Recontextualizers, those prankish scamps who will create a trailer for "The Shining" as if it were a light comedy or for "West Side Story" as if it were a pandemic thriller.
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Similar to Eternal Darkness, Back in 1995 will throw some prankish television gags your way, like pretending to change the video input, but because you are probably playing on a computer I doubt they'd cause you any panic.
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Two months later, he participated in a wishful attempt to levitate the Pentagon, and the following year, with Jerry Rubin, he led the prankish Youth International Party (the Yippies) toward the bloody fray outside the Democratic National Convention.
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Whether or not you think they created an all-time great gimmick by giving off the appearance they were manufacturing uncanny-valley pop stars in a lab, the prankish collective wielded amazing pop songs beneath the smokescreen of hype.
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With two decades of experience at major pharmaceutical companies like Bayer and Pfizer, she presented a polished counterpoint to the antics of Mr. Shkreli, who has seemed to delight in inciting outrage and remains a prankish figure on Twitter.
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It's appropriate that "George," a documentary about George Maciunas (1931-1978), the Lithuanian-born artist who devised the manifesto for the movement known as Fluxus, should be, like that group itself, playful, prankish and a little hard to pin down.
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It is already clear that Winfried (Peter Simonischek), a shambling, unshaven music teacher with a mop of gray hair and a prankish sense of humor, has ideas about public and professional behavior that would raise alarms in any human resources department.
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Roberts has said he was partially inspired by "Go to Minnesota and steal their 11,513 Lakes," a similarly prankish viral Facebook event, but over the course of two months, this one would blur the line between internet meme and reality.
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En route Alcorn entertains with riffs on fiction and a pleasurable cascade of word plays ("He had gotten seminal with a seminarian"), prankish names (Graham Crocker III), brush stroke perceptions and sexual puns that would heat the cockles of Joyce's multitasking heart.
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A ghoulishly prankish satire set in Victorian London, it's the most fully realized of three productions I saw on Saturday at the New York Musical Festival, which recently changed its name (formerly New York Musical Theater Festival) to match its longtime acronym, NYMF.
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The word is sometimes translated as 'mascot', but yuru-kyara are significantly different from mascots in the West, such as those associated with professional sports teams, which tend to be benign, prankish one-dimensional court jesters that operate in the narrow realm of the sidelines during game time.
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What is happening today is a blend of two kinds of clown sightings, Radford says: There are "stalker clowns," or prankish and menacing figures who may turn up in parking lots or parks and who turn out to actually have been someone dressing up as a clown, either as a kind of stunt or for publicity.
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ALASTAIR MACAULAY If you could imagine a musical analogue for texts by Hugo Ball or Kurt Schwitters (it helps that we have recordings of Schwitters reading his own work), it might be structured improvisations in the 1960s and '70s by, say, Roscoe Mitchell, John Zorn or the ICP Orchestra: noisy, festive, prankish, stubborn, with quick changes of affect.
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Tesla — prankish pet hamster, saved by the children from the cat. The name was given in honor of the great physicist Nikola Tesla. Was the absolute master of the attic, before the alien appeared. Fortunately, Tesla and Neo quickly found a common language.
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Reviewers called Nuts! humorous, entertaining, stranger than fiction, and "catnip for audiences of a certain type". Dennis Harvey wrote in Variety, "Lane and company created a sort of prankish ode to the classic American Dream of hard work and high ideals leading inevitably to fame, fortune and happiness. That's what Brinkley was really selling, and he mastered its packaging even if the content turned out to be mostly fraudulent".
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Though a tall and quiet teenager, his prankish sense of humor found outlet in his art, sometimes in depictions of immigrants or of women dominating men in comic situations. Later in life, he mostly depicted women as the figures in his paintings.Levin 1995, p. 23, 25 In high school, he dreamed of being a naval architect, but after graduation he declared his intention to follow an art career.
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In 2002, Pflock and James W. Moseley collaborated on a book called Shockingly Close to the Truth: Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist, published by Prometheus. It is an autobiographical account of Moseley's serious and prankish experiences with ufology, including the hoaxing and UFO landing site in 1954 and using fake UFO footage during lectures. The book includes coverage of Andy "The Mystic Barber" Sinatra, Donald Keyhoe and Budd Hopkins.
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For Universal, Mills made another movie with her father, The Truth About Spring (1965), co-starring Disney regular James MacArthur as her love interest. It was mildly popular. However The Trouble with Angels (1966), was a huge hit; Mills played as a prankish Catholic boarding school girl with "scathingly brilliant" schemes, opposite screen veteran Rosalind Russell, and directed by another Hollywood veteran, Ida Lupino. She then provided a voice for The Daydreamer (1966).
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The manifestation of hacker culture in the form of spectacular pranks is the most visible aspect of this culture to the world at large, but many hacker subcultures exist at MIT, and elsewhere. This article focuses mostly on prankish aspects; for a fuller description of hacker culture, see "Hacker (term)". Roof and tunnel hacking, a form of urban exploration, is also related to but not identical to "hacking" as described in this article. Some hacks do involve overcoming barriers to physical access (e.g.
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Timothy Crouse's affinity for campaign reporters and the theater took root from his father, Russel Crouse, who was a career newspaperman and playwright. "The stories he told me of his newspaper days—especially traveling around the country with prankish sports teams—had a fatal tinge of romance about them," said Crouse.mediabistro.com: Articles: Q&A;: Timothy Crouse His father's career in theatre began in 1928 when he played Bellflower in the play Gentlemen of the Press. Later, his father turned his attention to writing.
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From 1955 to 1958, Breslin co-starred with Jackie Cooper as his girlfriend and then wife in the NBC sitcom, The People's Choice. Between 1960 and 1963, Breslin made three guest appearances on CBS's Perry Mason, and was cast as the defendant in all three episodes. In 1960, she played Karen Lewis in "The Case of the Lavender Lipstick." In 1962, she played Karen Ross in "The Case of the Poison Pen-Pal", and in 1963, as Laura Hewes in "The Case of the Prankish Professor".
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615), and Cumean (Cumine Ailbha, abbot of Iona); in the Prankish kingdom the most interesting work is the Penitential of Halitgar, bishop of Cambrai from 817 to 831. As penances had for a long time been lightened, and the books used by confessors began to consist more and more of instructions in the style of the later moral theology (and this is already the case of the books of Halitgar and Rhabanus Maurus), the canonical collections began to include a greater or smaller number of the penitential canons.
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Iordan Datcu, "Ovidiu Papadima", in România Literară, Nr. 22/2009 When dealing with the poetic universe of Bucharest suburbia, Crevedia's work was infused with influences from Tudor Arghezi, who, Călinescu argues, was a "prototype", particularly with his Mildew Flowers cycle. Nevertheless, the critic points out that the thick Wallachian dialect of Crevedia's prose was only suited for comedic situations and "facile subjects", not "great lyricism". He viewed Crevedia as particularly hampered by his borrowings from the humorous verse of Ion Minulescu and his own "prankish temperament".Călinescu, pp.
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Van Patten has appeared in dozens of television series. She was a member of the original cast of As the World Turns. She made her television debut as a featured regular on The Danny Kaye Show, after which she co-starred with Bob Denver and Herb Edelman in the 1968-70 sitcom The Good Guys as Claudia Gramus, the long-suffering wife of diner owner Bert Gramus (played by Edelman). She appeared in two episodes of Perry Mason ("The Case of the Prankish Professor" and "The Case of the Thermal Thief").
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In 1998, Alfian published his first collection of poetry, One Fierce Hour at the age of twenty-one. The book was acclaimed as "truly a landmark for poetry [in Singapore]" by The Straits Times, and Alfian himself was described by Malaysia's New Straits Times as "one of the most acclaimed poets in his country... a prankish provocateur, libertarian hipster". A year later, Alfian published his first collection of short stories, Corridor, which won the Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award. Seven of the short stories from the collection have since been adapted for television.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas followed the Mint 400 piece in 1971 and included a main character by the name of Raoul Duke, accompanied by his attorney, Dr. Gonzo, with defining art by Ralph Steadman. Although this book is considered a prime example of gonzo journalism, Thompson regarded it as a failed experiment. He had intended it to be an unedited record of everything he did as it happened, but he edited the book five times before publication. Thompson would instigate events himself, often in a prankish or belligerent manner, and then document both his actions and those of others.
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The series met with moderate success on the newsstand, running for approximately 24 issues until Little Audrey was licensed by Harvey Comics in 1952. Initially, Harvey's comic-book version closely followed its animated template, but the character was redesigned during the mid-1950s to conform more closely to the company's in-house style. The general storyline was simultaneously overhauled to provide Audrey with supporting characters such as Melvin Wisenheimer, her ugly, prankish hero/boyfriend, and Tiny, a young black boy. Domestic comedy gradually took over the scripts, as Audrey was shown in conflict with parents, teachers, and other authority figures.
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In 1998, Freeman published another book The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead. It included new material, in particular interviews that Freeman called of "exceptional historical significance" and "of quite fundamental importance" of one of Mead's then- adolescent informants by a Samoan chief from the National University of Samoa (in 1988 and 1993) and of her daughter (in 1995). Correspondence of 1925–1926 between Franz Boas and Margaret Mead was also newly available to Freeman. He concludes in the introduction to the book that "her exciting revelations about sexual behavior were in some cases merely the extrapolations of whispered intimacies, whereas those of greatest consequence were the results of a prankish hoax".
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AllMusic reviewer stated that "the album remade a case for Frehley as one of rock's most potent, soulful axe slingers", who "surprised even longtime supporters with its forceful, confident performances and sharp songwriting." Anomaly, wrote longtime Kiss supporter Geoff Barton, "is full of the Spaceman's signature charms: guitar playing that teeters on the brink of disintegration; gobby Bronx attitude; shout-it-out-loud vocals; songwriting skills that veer between brilliant and blundering. If Kiss's new album Sonic Boom is a slickly realised summation of the band's heritage, then Anomaly is the exact opposite: it's Ace at his most idiosyncratic, vulnerable, prankish, calamitous and, yes, cataclysmic." Justin Crafton of Sleaze Roxx.
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Like sound engineer Michael B. Tretow, Ted was also known for his prankish sense of humour; he was a big fan of Monty Python's Flying Circus and loved practical jokes, which also is reflected in the lyrics in the form of puns, word play, and double entendres. Kenneth's skills as a lyricist paradoxically resulted in the fact that some of Ted's audiences, in the 1970s and even to the present day, were under the impression that he wrote both the music and all lyrics, which Kenneth has since revealed that he only took as recognition that he had done Ted's music justice and it was the best compliment that he could get.
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Ticket sales were boosted by same-day live radio or TV broadcasts, or by unannounced appearances on streetcorners and in public plazas – which were sometimes, to the band's amusement, broken up by the police. Over time, The Klezmorim's prankish humor and spontaneous banter evolved into a semi- polished show inspired by the theatrically excessive Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. The Klezmorim acknowledged their own street-busker roots in a series of collectively written minimalist stage spectacles melding New Vaudeville with agitprop, evoking the social turmoil that propelled 19th- century Eastern European klezmer musicians into jazz-age America.Thompson, Suzy R., "The Klezmorim," in McGovern, Adam (ed.), musicHound World, Visible Ink, 2000, , pp. 398–399.
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In addition to Eagleton, the delegates insisted on nominating seven other candidates for vice president, including Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska, former Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody and Frances "Sissy" Farenthold of the Texas House of Representatives. By the time the roll call finally began, the delegates were in a prankish mood, casting ballots for the fictional Archie Bunker, Martha Beall Mitchell, New Mexico Lt. Governor Roberto Mondragon, and CBS-TV's Roger Mudd. With hundreds of delegates either actively supporting Nixon or angry at McGovern for one reason or another, the vote was thus chaotic, with votes scattered over 70 candidates. The eventual winner was Eagleton, who accepted the nomination despite not personally knowing McGovern very well, and privately disagreeing with many of McGovern's policies.
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The Pierrot bequeathed to the twentieth century had acquired a rich and wide range of personae. He was the naïve butt of practical jokes and amorous scheming (Gautier); the prankish but innocent waif (Banville, Verlaine, Willette); the narcissistic dreamer clutching at the moon, which could symbolize many things, from spiritual perfection to death (Giraud, Laforgue, Willette, Dowson); the frail, neurasthenic, often doom-ridden soul (Richepin, Beardsley); the clumsy, though ardent, lover, who wins Columbine's heart,This is the case in many works by minor writers of the fin-de-siècle—e.g., Léo Rouanet, The Belly and Heart of Pierrot (1888), summarized in Storey, Pierrots on the stage, pp. 299–300. or murders her in frustration (Margueritte); the cynical and misogynistic dandy, sometimes dressed in black (Huysmans/Hennique, Laforgue); the Christ-like victim of the martyrdom that is Art (Giraud, Willette, Ensor); the androgynous and unholy creature of corruption (Richepin, Wedekind); the madcap master of chaos (the Hanlon-Lees); the purveyor of hearty and wholesome fun (the English pier Pierrots)—and various combinations of these.
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