Word: comic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confesses to another sort of problem: an initial enthusiasm followed immediately by unmanning apathy. He has decided that he must be homosexual. Patrick's tasks include talking Tim out of this idea and keeping his own marriage from foundering. The author trots out these carnal misadventures with his usual comic flair. Patrick is a typical Amis hero, a young fogy who finds much of the world exasperating. Beneath the crackling surface, though, lies a more somber tale of people behaving badly and, in most cases, finally coming to their senses...
ELVIS COSTELLO: SPIKE (Warner Bros.). God's Comic, Stalin Malone, Miss Macbeth: even the titles sting. The songs are like an acid bath; no quarter given or expected...
...dialogue is all song cues; Pitchford's songs are standard technopop, except for a comic showstopper, called Life Ain't Worth Livin' (When You're Dead), that the suicidal teens of Heathers might take to heart. Otherwise, Sing is strictly Gold Diggers turned to brass. In the latest teenpix class portrait, it's a dropout...
Director Adam Hyman also deserves praise for his imaginative use of the limited potential of the Holmes Living Room as a stage and for judiciously injecting a few moments of comic relief into Miss Julie's bitter battle. For make no mistake, this little domestic drama aspires to Tragedy with a capital T, and when the catharsis finally comes, you will leave happily exhausted...
...nation that has always adored social satire, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, 55, is the undisputed comic laureate of glasnost. Once forced to circulate tapes of his routines underground, today Zhvanetsky plays thousand-seat arenas, appears on national television and counts Politburo member Alexander Yakovlev among his fans. To give readers a flavor of his comedic style, TIME asked Zhvanetsky to write a monologue about his trip to the U.S. last year...