Word: comical
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...soars through the night sky, disrupts military aviation, wages holy war against those twin bastions of evil, terrorists and corporate bigwigs. He's Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), zillionaire industrialist, and he arrives accompanied by the POW!, BANG! and KA-BOOM! suitable for a movie based on a comic book, but with lots more intelligence than the genre usually demands. It's Iron Man to the rescue, yanking movies and the worldwide box office out of its months-long doldrums and into the stratosphere...
...beginning of Iron Man - directed by Jon Favreau from a script by Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway - Tony Stark is nearly a cartoon villain, though he's drawn in the bold, confident strokes worthy of a '60s Marvel Comic cover by Jack Kirby. He has a Mephistophelean goatee and a glint in his eyes that suggests this former boy wonder is a genius at wasting his genius. He's a devoted practitioner of pride, lust and avarice, to name the fanciest of your deadly sins. This is a man who has got it all: wealth, power...
...drawn cartoons for The Crimson, but painting is where his passion lies. His work for the Lampoon is one of his proudest achievements at Harvard, but Powers enjoys painting because his work doesn’t have to fit into a niche. While growing up, Powers drew lots of comic strips, with Tintin as an early inspiration. But with his arrival at Harvard, his interest in painting intensified. He credits the faculty of the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department—including Nancy Mitchnick—and his fellow students with helping him develop his style...
...apartment. Off he goes to a resort in Hawaii, doing his best to forget his troubles. Naturally, Sarah is shacked up there with Peter?s replacement, a hirsute, laid-back and slyly egomaniacal rock star named Aldous, who is played with an oddly insinuating charm by British comic Russell Brand. Peter attempts to learn surfing, drinks to excess and spies clumsily on the lovers. He has quite a lot on his plate - so much so that he for a long time ignores a very tempting side dish, a hotel receptionist named Rachel (the lovely Mila Kunis), who has dropped...
...danced unrehearsed with any partner. Following the performance, art historian Meredith Chilton elaborated on these 18th-century entertainments, focusing especially on the character of the harlequin. One of the most popular stock characters featured in the Commedia dell’arte, an improvisational theater group, the harlequin was a comic servant character. Often dressed in bright, eye-catching costumes, the harlequin was a favorite subject of 18th-century porcelain sculptors. Though less than a handful of actual harlequin costumes survive today, those on display seem empty compared to the porcelain figurines that recall the actors’ expressiona and posea...