There was an amusing effort to link the two dances by positing Liszt and Mr. Baryshnikov as rock-starlike celebrities with a penchant for fostering the younger generation.
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.
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".
Particularly interesting, even amusing, were the efforts against The Louisiana Lottery, a company that earned good profits in the lottery business.
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.
The actress beautifully runs the gamut of emotions and reactions, managing the character's amusing mix of earnest efforts and maternal — and social — missteps with realism, depth and grace.
But the effort is amusing as well, for there is absolutely no need to spend millions of dollars to create fake identities online.
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.
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".
