Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what? The fact is, Efil4zaggin is an entire open season for negative stereotyping. That's the classic rap posture, black male division, of course: turning the comic-book white fantasy of the black male as a murderous sexual stud into a hyperbolic reality. Rappers like N.W.A. and Public Enemy want to scare the living hell out of white America -- and sell it a whole mess of records -- by making its worst racial nightmares come true...
...reward to be judiciously savored. "I consider myself a good soldier," he says. "You go to work, you do the job -- write joke, tell joke, get check -- and the world will pretty much take care of itself." After establishing himself as a Johnny wannabe, the glockenspiel- jawed comic was offered other talk-show slots, but, he says, "I wisely turned them down. To me, this is the only job in television. I'm kind of coming in as the new CEO. You don't really own it, you just hold it and try not to drop the ball when...
...Sets seems marginally more realistic -- or anyway more temperate -- than the lives of its performers. For Soapdish is something the movies rarely attempt: a flat-out farce, all slamming doors, thrown objects, misplaced emotions and terrific timing by a wonderful ensemble of actors. Field has an unsuspected gift for comic malevolence, and Kline has a way of putting a soft, almost endearing spin on egomania. No one has ever acted bad acting better than these two, and cool Michael Hoffman is a director who never misses the point or rattles on past...
...poster in the Science Center uses characters from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes to comment on the situation, with Calvin exclaiming, "Money! Ha ha ha! I'm rich! I'm rich! I can buy off anyone. The world is mine...
...simplified and unscrambled. The distinguishing characteristic of Immortality, however, is its refusal to acknowledge any distinction between basic plot and the voluminous speculations that a given action seems capable of prompting. The book possesses a vertiginous sweep of perspectives from the intimate to the Olympian, along with a sometimes comic eagerness to explain not only what happens to its characters but also the evolution of Western culture and the meaning of life itself...