Here's hoping that for Jeannie and Ms. Bell (who has talked about amusing efforts to hide her real-life pregnancy during filming), it's a harbinger of more complex things to come.
Weaved throughout are accounts of Collins's amusing efforts to examine a handful of the 230 First Folios known to exist; he writes of the mixture of horror and delight he felt on discovering that "some Jacobean brat" had doodled in a Folio's margins.
One amusing recent effort to grab the moral high ground, concocted by the commentator Michael Medved, has been to argue that "when conservatives boycott, they tend to boycott because of obscenity," while the liberal anti-Laura campaign is "based upon [her] opinion".
Improvement in team members was accompanied by a number of amusing promotional efforts, including giving away live animals and scheduling morning games with free breakfast for overnight workers.
But the effort is amusing as well, for there is absolutely no need to spend millions of dollars to create fake identities online.
A ripe topic, considering all the new work in video, the show will include classic, sometimes amusing, sometimes alarming experimental efforts by the likes of Dennis Oppenheim, Yoko Ono and William Wegman.
I wouldn't want you quoting me blowing my own trumpet like this, but a lot of people do say to me, 'You're the funniest man I've ever met.' Yeeass, I do make an effort to be amusing".
When he isn't, his eyes go milky and he becomes quiet, his efforts at being amusing withering in direct proportion to the extent to which he is not amused.
One can almost hear a chorus of experts in the many sciences of sex and gender muttering that her amusing, readable synthesis is a featherweight effort, simplistic and derivative.
Gilbert made an effort to write an amusing part for her despite Sullivan's reluctance to use her, but by mid-May 1878, both Gilbert and Sullivan wanted her out of the cast; unhappy with the role, she left.
