Word: comical
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...prevent anyone from having a good time. “A Little Night Yiddish” is a celebration of Jewish culture, communicated through traditional Yiddish songs and subject matter (this included the age-old “Jewish Mother” stereotype, which formed the basis of many comic one-liners). The first part focused on the plights of Jewish immigrants to the United States, while the second was set in a vaudeville Yiddish theatre. The wandering plotlines, however, left the viewer confused. In the first act, for example, the link between the different characters’ stories...
...conducted by Yuga J. Cohler ’11, was the only consistently earnest element in the entire play. Its placement in front of the stage provided an excellent view of the bobbing heads of the clarinets and the poise of the cellists, immediately immersing the audience into the comic opera. The rare sincere moments in acting were the most spectacular. The dragoons offered a relieving element of honesty, admitting outright that they hated the effusive Romanticism and that their ultimate concern was the pursuit of their ex-fiancés. Led by a confident Colonel Calverley (Eliot Shimer...
...alongside its lists of the best music and film of 2007, the magazine published a list of its “Top 10 Graphic Novels” of the year for the first time. It was filled with everything from individual issues of “Superman” comic books to little-known, underground comics.But chances are, if you’re the average American, you don’t even know what “graphic novel” means. The term tends to refer to either bound collections of individual issues of comic books or actual novels...
...eking out other precarious livings, like a woman gathering lotus pods to sell in the city. Not that the artists will be better off if they intend to make a living from drawing alone. It's cheaper for small printers in Cambodia to publish a reprint of an older comic than to buy rights to a new story, and literacy rates in the country remain low. "People have the decks stacked against them a little bit," admits Weeks. For Séra, however, money has never been the point - facing the difficult realities of the nation's present...
From start to finish, Heston was a grand, ornery anachronism, the sinewy symbol of a time when Hollywood took itself seriously, when heroes came from history books, not comic books. Epics like Ben-Hur or El Cid simply couldn't be made today, in part because popular culture has changed as much as political fashion. But mainly because there's no one remotely like Charlton Heston to infuse the form with his stature, fire and guts...