Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some used their profits to start up other ventures: a postal system, a comic book, a loan agency. Disputes eventually led to the creation of laws, police, courts and a constitutional convention (democracy triumphed over a police state by a single vote). As they began to discover the relevance of reading and arithmetic through managing their miniature society, Richmond's students also discovered in themselves an enthusiasm for education -- and a hunger for more...
...BOTTOM LINE: A complex master of comic prose gets the biography he deserves...
...sulfurous sensuality Tonya Pinkins radiates in Jelly's Last Jam, but you'll get the achy-breaky pain in her reading of Play the Music for Me. On the Secret Garden album, Daisy Eagan, the show's child star, is forever 11, frozen in innocence. Faith Prince's comic chirps and sniffles come across magnificently on Guys and Dolls, as does the schlemiel's charisma of Nathan Lane in his Sue Me duet with Prince...
...Reiser, a former stand-up comic, has knife-edge timing and a full repertoire of nervous tics, and Hunt manages to be both charming and exasperating at the same time. One sign of a sitcom that cares more about its characters than its gag lines: when Paul and Jamie start to fight, they ask their dinner guests to leave the room -- carrying their potential wisecracks with them. Privacy is one concept that becomes more precious with...
...disillusionment that sends her to her grim fate. What is wrong could not be fixed by any amount of dressing up. Anna is an earnest, intermittently moving but never quite thrilling stage equivalent to PBSs Masterpiece Theater -- lovely gowns, precise elocution and ballroom dancing, with a stately pace, wayward comic intrusions and scant urgency...