Word: comical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie (Viking; $19.95). Charges of blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad have put Rushdie's book into international headlines. But the author's relentless artistry pervades this encyclopedic fiction about the explosive, often comic, meetings of East and West...
...APPOINTMENTS OF DENNIS JENNINGS (HBO, starting March 6, 10 p.m. EST). Deadpan comic Steven Wright plays a paranoid writer trying to sort out his life in this short, also an Oscar nominee...
Thesis titles spanned an interesting range, from "The Nature of Ulster Violence" to "Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My" to "Sex and Sales in the American Department Store." Among others on Dickens, Faulkner, and textile industries, there was also a thesis on Batman and "Changes in Comic Book Storytelling...
With casual dress and manner, King also read a newly-written short story, "The Rainy Season," a comic-horror tale of an unsuspecting professor and his wife who summer at a dingy summer town in Maine called "Willow...
...SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie (Viking; $19.95). Charges of blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad have earned a death threat for Rushdie and international headlines for his book, an artfully written encyclopedic fiction about the explosive, often comic, meetings of East and West...