Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the council was previously unsuccessful in negotiating a Febrary 17 Wright show, Kim said the Boston-born comic is reconsidering a Harvard performance because he wishes to receive a Harvard Lampoon award...
...television and its preachers have replaced religiosity, and the search for simple human goodness has become increasingly complex. In his comic new novel The Book of Marvels, Christopher T. Leland succeeds in finding that place in the modern world where goodness knows no religion...
Leland, who currently teaches at Bennington College in Vermont, said in a telephone interview Saturday that the rough draft of his first comic novel took him only six weeks to write. Leland, who started the book in the spring of 1988, at the end of his lectureship at Harvard, said the story "told itself...
...under the direction of Lisi Fishman, the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Dramatic Society's production of Broadway Bound emphasizes the dramatic, rather than the comic, aspects of Simon's play. The performances of Jodi Kanter, Jeff Golden and Jeremy Blumenthal as Eugene's parents and brother are riveting...
VINELAND by Thomas Pynchon (Little, Brown; $19.95). In his first novel since Gravity's Rainbow (1973), a major writer turns his attention to all manner of American zaniness and produces a soaring, comic and visionary tale...