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You know, some injuries aren't humorous.
The most feared (in a good-natured, humorous way) teen news--other than the startlingly high number of "your child was killed in a car crash" (in a lighthearted, frolicsome way)--was this: Your adolescent is enjoying sex and drugs.
The present Canadian Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney, because of his tendency to change his public position on such things as the universality of social programs, is widely known as Lyin'-Brian . In the 1970s, Prime Minister Trudeau was overheard using the f-word in the House of Commons, but when asked about it later, he claimed that what he had said was fuddle-duddle . The country was generally amused (though not deceived) by this humorous explanation.
The PG-13 rated movie, Wild Wild West , for example, opens with a 'humorous' decapitation, and the PG rated movie, Star Wars: Episode 1--The Phantom Menace , contains numerous violent deaths."
The decades of modernism, however, produced music that was vehement (George Crumb's Black Angels ), haunted (Elliott Carter's Night Fantasies ), humorous (Berio's Sequenze ), dazzling (Wijtold Lutoslawski's Les Espaces du Sommeil )--not to mention music that wasn't modernist at all.