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black humor
black humor in literature, drama, and film, grotesque or morbid humor used to express the absurdity, insensitivity, paradox, and cruelty of the modern world. Ordinary characters or situations are usually exaggerated far beyond the limits of normal satire or irony. Black humor uses devices often associated with tragedy and is sometimes equated with tragic farce. For example, Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963) is a terrifying comic treatment of the circumstances surrounding the dropping of an atom bomb, while Jules Feiffer's comedy Little Murders (1965) is a delineation of the horrors of modern urban life, focusing particularly on random assassinations. The novels of such writers as Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Joseph Heller, and Philip Roth contain elements of black humor.
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Humor: don't manage people without it.
Magazine article from: Radiologic Technology; 9/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...about.[1] But then, perhaps it does. Humor and laughter are becoming increasingly...Norman Cousins describes how he relied on humor to help him through a serious illness and...Cousins firmly believes that there is a humor-health connection, and that humor is...
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Humor in the OR: a stitch in time?(Report)
Magazine article from: AORN Journal; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; The use of humor by health care professionals including perioperative nurses is widespread. Humor serves multiple purposes and provides numerous benefits. This article explores the use of humor in the perioperative setting. WHAT IS HUMOR...
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Humor use in romantic relationships: the effects of relationship satisfaction and pleasant versus conflict situations.(Report)
Magazine article from: The Journal of Psychology; 5/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; HUMOR IS AN IMPORTANT ASPECT of many romantic relationships...found that wives and husbands considered humor to be among the more important ingredients...individuals place a great deal of importance on humor when selecting a mate (Buss, 1988; Goodwin...
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Humor in the classroom: Stu's Seven Simple Steps to Success.
Magazine article from: College Teaching; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Abstract. So you want to use humor in your classroom but think it will be inappropriate...and computer programming, you can still use humor effectively in the classroom. This article explains types of humor that have worked for me, introduces tips...
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Humor and the theology of hope: Isaac as a humorous figure
Magazine article from: Interpretation; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...narratives contain many rarely noticed elements of humor. While enhancing the reader's enjoyment, humor is also an integral component of a theology...propensity to underemphasize or completely ignore humor in the Bible.1 This is caused by a variety...
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Humor: a coping strategy for pediatric patients.
Magazine article from: Pediatric Nursing; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...help children cope with illness and hospitalizations is humor. Use of Humor as a Coping Strategy Coping strategies are the cognitive...through exercise, spirituality, support groups, and humor (Folkman et al., 1991). According to Honig (1986...
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Humor and Psyche: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Magazine article from: American Journal of Psychotherapy; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; JAMES W BARRON (ED.) Humor and Psyche: Psychoanalytic Perspectives...45.00, ISBN 0-88163-257-0. Humor and Psyche can be read fruitfully for...general public who are interested in humor, psychoanalysis, and their relationship...
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Humor Them With Ice Cream; The Good Man in the Famous Truck Rings a Famous Bell
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/2/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...parents come out from the back yard. The Good Humor man is here, bringing a bit of America with...truck,' " says Richard Hancock, a Good Humor veteran of 16 years. Hancock has been selling Good Humor ice cream since 1973 and makes the rounds...
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Humor as a therapeutic recreation intervention. (Therapeutic Recreation).(Bibliography)
Magazine article from: Parks & Recreation; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; "Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The...have speculated about the various effects of humor, often attributing to it more than just...disposition. Long have people suspected that humor provides real psychological and physical...
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Humor: How to best use it in your practice
Magazine article from: Dermatology Times; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...made us laugh with his physician-patient humor. Many remember the oneliners, such as...these biting exchanges, physicians who use humor in their practices must be sensitive and...relationship. When used appropriately, however, humor can help to break the ice or relax a patient...
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Humor Therapy
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Humor therapy Definition Humor therapy is the art of using humor and laughter to help heal people with physical or mental illness. Origins The benefits of humor therapy were acknowledged as far back as the book of Proverbs in the Old Testament...
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Humor, Food in
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
HUMOR, FOOD IN HUMOR, FOOD IN. Humor and laughter are unique to humans and separate them from other animals. While all social and cultural aspects of human existence are subject to humor, food and sex are the most widespread topics because...
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Humor
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology
Humor The mental faculty of discovering, expressing...absurdly incongruous. Sigmund Freud considered humor an outlet for discharging pent up psychic...damaging events. Since the 1970s, research on humor has shifted from a Freudian focus to an emphasis...
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humor
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...surviving in aqueous humor and vitreous humor , fluids in the eyeball...for any of the cardinal humors (sense 3), whence...relative proportions of the humors). This led, in the...x2019; hence to humor someone ‘to...
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Satire and Humor
Book article from: American Decades
SATIRE AND HUMOR Era of Satire Cynicism and ebullience coexisted...The defining characteristic of American humor is irreverence—the refusal...literary humorists rarely outlive them because humor becomes identified with its time: a comic...
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