Word: comical
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...show’s comic momentum is sustained through the meal by the actors’ constant interaction with the audience. Countless insights and witticisms are offered, best of all by Maria herself. Giving advice on romance to a 20-something woman, the blushing bride pauses to question the woman’s male escorts. When the three answer in the affirmative to her inquiry about whether they attended “cah-lidge,” she cautions her younger friend that she might want to look elsewhere for companionship: “Oh, they?...
Laughter at whom, is the question. Bush, a prime comic target, may be tacitly off-limits...
...first part of the book reads like a pastoral of a child's suburban springtime. Jon, the focus of the book, spends his laconic, carefree schooldays fooling around with his best friend Bjorn, reading comic books, eating candy and telling jokes. He lives in a slightly odd, magical universe where a pterodactyl may swoop down and fly off with his kite to his mild surprise. Stilts are used instead of cars and sometimes Jon's father lets him "drive it to the garage." The characters all have the faces of animals, but not in any sort of realistic...
...recent days, the administration has castigated a late-night comic for disagreeing with government policies and has attempted to restrict the editorial independence of the trusted Voice of America news reports. More recently, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice requested that television news executives consider the appropriateness of airing uncensored versions of videos released by Osama bin Laden’s al Queda organization. Rice argued that the propaganda effects of the videos might incite further violence against the United States, and that they might transmit coded messages to al Queda operatives still in this country...
Assassins is a difficult work that examines, in a darkly comic fashion, those who have attempted to kill the President of the United States. It asks how these individuals from places physically and mentally diverse came to the same terrible conclusion. The answer is disturbing for it speculates that those who grow up to attempt to kill the president are by-products of the very same American dream that creates presidents...