Word: comical
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...darkly comic novels, like Cabot Wright Begins, inspired some and baffled others. Still, James Purdy, 94, enjoyed writing stories that "bristled with impossibilities...
...desk, a loudmouth host and a camera--the guests show up for free, lured by the bewitching red light that signals ON THE AIR. For online news, you don't even need the guests or the camera. A paper, by contrast, has presses and trucks and lifestyle reporters; comic strips, critics and recipes; the DIY column, beat writers, the sports pages, an investigative team, the statehouse bureau, a squad of chin strokers on the editorial board and that older fellow who writes a "light" column that hasn't been funny for years. That's a lot of overhead...
...sure how you can take seriously a play whose comic coup de théâtre (it gets uproarious laughter) is a scene of projectile vomiting. But it's typical of Reza's quest for easy laughs at the expense of her superficially serious theme: the familiar one that civilized upper-middle-class people are really barbarians underneath. The unsavory revelations that emerge during the play's one long scene (e.g., one dad secretly got rid of his kid's pet hamster by turning it loose on the street) are mere contrivances played simply for laughs; I get more insights...
...matter how ridiculous or ambitious it seems. If you believe it, I think your passion can draw other people to it.” Over the next few months, Kamler continued researching and refining Le Whif. The group’s whimsical story was immortalized in a manga comic, Whiff. Finally, a year after its unveiling, Le Whif is ready to hit stores. It will be available in four flavors—mango, raspberry, mint, and original—and will go on sale in Paris starting April 7 at both Le Laboratoire and Colette, a trendy shop...
...grotesque way. The offhand presentation of violence and brutality certainly constitutes a form of defamiliarization, but the effect, conversely, is to sap the book of any real emotional power. Such descriptions abound in the novel in a flat, monotonous way, and the purely grotesque, after intense repetition, has neither comic nor dramatic value. Thus even those scenes which ought to be most powerful have little impact, as with the death of Senyor, a character of focus for some odd pages: “The blacksmith gave the word for the cement man to commence; they forced open Senyor?...