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...towards consistency. After enough sections and response papers we can all be opinionated, or at least appropriately melodramatic, for 800 words or 55 minutes, whichever comes first. But is their continuity between these spurts of eloquence? Does a clear voice emerge and transcend? Or is everything reduced to a comic strip box--a snapshot with the most interesting pieces of life squished into the inked borders...
...idea that selective shots of our lives are representative isn't new. It's the basis for comic books, episodic TV shows and the classic celluloid biography. Highlight a couple of key points and get to the punchline, and the rest--the actions that make our words human-- follow nicely behind...
NAME: Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog OCCUPATION: Crudely insulting Conan O'Brien's guests BEST PUNCH: Triumph, who often tells guests they're fit only for him "to poop on," has publicly and colorfully said that Pets.com ripped...
...Roth has not lost one ampere of his power to rile and surprise. When Alexander Portnoy, David Kepesh (The Professor of Desire) and Zuckerman writhed between desire and conscience, the psychoanalytic model was turned into serious comic fiction...
...wealth. The Winklers in this film are basically decent people. When they make their money, it really doesn't change them. They are who they are and it comes out with less inhibition. They don't feel the need to circumscribe themselves or censor themselves. At the end, the comic thrust of the story dictates that they go back to where they started - that's all I cared about. But it would never be that the Winklers make their money and then Frenchy turns into a louse - as my wife, she was always nice, but she has her weakness...