Spurred on by new ideas, but basically traditionalists, József Gvadányi and András Dugonics produced amusing works that were both of some literary merit and popular.
His amusing anecdotes illustrate some of the rules he sets out for foreigners mystified by China, which can come across as a kind of economic chaos that somehow works on a macro level -- yet can be frustrating for individual investors.
Instead, there is the grim moral tone of a writer who finds nothing amusing about the banal evil men who work on either side of the law.
As amusing as it is to watch them work on a dating profile for Gru, the story gets too squishy when it goes too mushy.
The notion that the music of Forkel's time was teetering toward extinction is, of course, amusing in retrospect; in the summer of 1802, Beethoven began work on the "Eroica".
He did, however, leave a detailed and amusing account of life with Randolph and his subsequent work on the biography, In Search of Churchill (1994).
Julian Morrow, probably best known for his work on The Chaser, wanted to know what joke at her own expense the PM had found most amusing.
The amusing discussion echoes the verbal wit of Rabelais, notes Claire-Akiko Brisset, a Japan expert who supervised the translation of this "poetic work on the art of cooking", as co-editors Estelle Leggeri-Bauer and Véronique Béranger call it.
"It was quite amusing for the two of us to exchange ideas in poor English, so most of the time he just showed me how he went about his work on video," Qin said.
Al Gore, on the other hand, while said to be a really amusing guy in person, is not wowing them so far -- though he has made himself more camera-ready with all that work on his pecs.
