Word: cartoonish
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...plot to "take the city private" and regulate everyone to "individual living units," along with its casual references to law enforcement as "urban pacification," may appear at first glance to be absurd and cartoonish...
Humana Corp. Headquarters. It seems fitting that Michael Graves, the most intensely promoted and most beleaguered of the postmoderns, was responsible for the finest work of the movement: his 1985 Humana building in Louisville, a confident, deluxe synthesis of historical styles from the past several millenniums that avoids cartoonish mannerism...
...somebody who wants to tell everything -- every one of the heart's dirty little secrets -- to his coterie audience. At the core, these are high-gloss melodramas with high comedy along the edges. They move like Roger Rabbit on speed, and so do the horny, drug-hyped, tortured, ironic, cartoonish creatures of his imagination...
...script, The Cocktail Hour, is the same as the work onstage. The setting, "upstate New York," is plainly the native Buffalo of its author, A.R. Gurney (The Dining Room). Gurney's actual family has made little secret of its distaste for being portrayed in his work ever since his cartoonish Love in Buffalo was mounted at Yale School of Drama in 1958, while he was a student there. Yet the puckish hint of autobiography is only one of the charms of The Cocktail Hour, which opened off-Broadway last week...
...rouse the audience from their seats directly into a protest rally. The framing story is the trial of a brutal, ignorant police chief in rural Texas for the killing of a young Chicano suspected of burglary. Morton's other plays mingle reality and daffy fantasy, human characters and cartoonish stereotypes in order to teach -- or preach -- the Hispanic history of the Americas. Says he: "I've seen the glaring difference between the First World and the Third World, and it weighs heavy on my soul...