Word: comicality
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...volunteers disseminate information about the disease and its symptoms to villagers who normally have little contact with doctors or government officials, let alone space-suited flu teams. In addition, the Thai government has made a special effort to educate the most vulnerable groups: a UNICEF-produced series of comic pamphlets warns rural children - who make up the majority of bird-flu cases - to stay away from chickens that appear sick. After surveillance, swift laboratory work is Step 2. Thailand's strong public-health system formed an innovative partnership with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in 2001 to launch...
...WERE YOUR BIG COMIC INFLUENCES? My biggest by far?besides my mother, who had an incredibly dark sense of humor?was Robert Benchley, a humor essayist. I always wanted to write like him. He was silly, and that appealed to me, that a grownup could be that silly and get away with...
...morsels: “It’s a comedy.”“MATCH POINT” SET “Match Point” is, on the other hand, a straight drama; not a comedy with moments of heartbreak, not a drama sprinkled with comic relief. Faded tennis pro Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) charms his way into the good graces of the wealthy Hewett family and settles into a comfortable marriage with Chloe Hewett (Emily Mortimer). Complicating the equation is his brother in-law’s fiancée, Nola, with whom Chris first...
...Actually, far more people watch 24-an addictive comic book of a show-than the serious films. There is an indomitable hero, Jack Bauer, who saves the world from evil with stunning regularity. But Bauer is different from pre-9/11 action heroes: he routinely and rather zestfully tortures people, which almost always results in the acquisition of crucial information. Indeed, whenever someone says, "Jack, you can't do that," the only reasonable viewer response is "Oh, shut up! Go for it, Jack." The show's message is not very subtle: We can win this war, but only...
...there's a circle of Hell - or Heaven - for comic misanthropes, Durang would reign (or serve) there. The author of many zippy sitcoms about domestic and social outrages now turns his thoughts to the afterlife, in an endearingly meditative farce about Veronica, a depressive woman who commits suicide in the year 2000 ("At least I got to miss 9/11") and lands in a sort of limbo, where she is reincarnated as, among other things, an abused child and a dog. Veronica is played by the dimpled Kristine Nielsen, whose performance is less depressive than manic; she orates her grudges with...