Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thomas (Mark S. Cartier) a geeky guy with a bowtie who opens his eyes really wide whenever Whitcomb touches him suggestively and Nick Rossetti (Michael Fennimore) who walks into the salon to the sound of "Macho Man," construction hat on. The play revolves around the interaction of these disparate comic types...
...happened last week, midway through the performance of Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants, a dextrous, funny and entirely elegant revue of card conjuring at an off-Broadway theater in Manhattan. The missing card, boldly marked and closely watched, appeared -- after several comic digressions -- in a totally unexpected place that only a master manipulator can navigate (and that would be wrong to divulge here...
...kind of multilingual humor practiced by Vladimir Nabokov, except that he would have let the reader make the translation. Subtlety is not Updike's intention. Tristao and Isabel may be descended from ancient legend, but they owe much of their character to Monty Python and those old underground comic books in which Popeye and Olive Oyl assumed positions not found in the funny papers...
...belied the assorted changes. Northern Lights still have one of the best sounds in bluegrass today: their combination of three-part harmonies with jazz rhythms and virtuosity beautifully reinforces their frankly emotional and oftentimes starkly depressing lyrics. Jonathan Edwards, (who here, as always, made painfully too many attempts at comic humor) once again communicated moments of passion mixed in with his eclectic numbers, such as the doowoppish "My First Kiss...
...prodigiously endowed and sadistic Kuen rapes and beats his wife. Some of the sex scenes are so over the top that one begins to think that this is an erotic John Woo film. To be sure, some of the situations are so implausible that they really function on a comic level, but as a whole, the violence and brutality are tremendously offputting...