Word: comical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unrequited Love suffers at least intermittently from an identity problem. While the title suggests a cognizance of the tragi-comic potentia of love, the line between comedy and tragedy seems too hastily drawn...
...craft? You bet there is. But Allen and McGrath also recognize how rude, disturbing and inconvenient greatness can be. And they grant gracious absolution to pretentious mediocrity, once it learns its place. Allen bathes his fable in a seductive, rosy light, grants everyone in the wonderful ensemble cast a comic high point, and gives us a film that combines impeccable craftsmanship and a basic exuberance that's been missing from his work for years...
...exception is Leonardo, whose temperament -- combining a fastidious eye for minute incident with a pessimistic, even apocalyptic imagination -- evidently intrigues him.The most successful trace is in Leda and the Swan, 1962, which enlarges the turbid vortices of the Deluge studies into a frenzy of scribbles and feathers, sexual and comic at the same time...
...sheer comic relief, the best performance of the evening was turned in by an unknown: Jason Schmitt '98, a freshman running for the council's presidency. Schmitt announced that he could offer the change the council needs, that he could restore it to respectability. He even presented a three-part platform (pretty good for someone who's barely been at Harvard a month...
Admittedly, it's nice to see a polysyllabic comic whose topic is politics rather than the mundane, but his brand of political humor borders on frightening. Sahl's staying power can be attributed to the fact that he remains neutral on political issues. Perhaps it's to a comic's advantage to have, as he declares, "No Values." Hearing him attack both conservatives and liberals with equal glee, however, sets one on edge. The lack of moral center ultimately distracts. How can he be funny if I can't figure out which angle this joke came from? The same Jewish...