Word: comics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just comic verse...
...dense and dark as a black hole. Miraculously, his writing provides illumination. He told one of the directors of Godot that "nothing is more grotesque than the tragic," and all of his works prove it. Beckett's clowns and cripples suffer and rant in a world as comic as it is hopeless, comic because it is hopeless. Easy cynics, in literature and life, are a dime a dozen. Bair's biography shows how rigorously and painfully Beckett earned his vision, and with what heroism he prevailed over...
Carter's stand-in flops as a stand-up comic...
...prix fixe seemed a bit steep, but the menu sounded impressive enough-breast of capon cordon bleu, pommes rissolées, bombe glacée-and the comic booked for the evening was strictly top banane: Jimmy Carter. For the first time in the 64 years that the White House Correspondents' Association has been inviting Presidents to its annual all-in-fun dinner, however, the incumbent did not show or send his wife or his Vice President to fill...
...enough. He does not revel in the macabre: he uses it to create sudden emptiness, black holes that demand contemplation. Why, while a housewife is napping and dreaming of sex, does the husband come home and fall into the cellar? Even at their worst, such things are pitched slightly comic and askew. Hannah's voice becomes distinctive as the stories proceed, a rolling mixture of roadhouse macho and ginmill sentimentality, marvelously suited for both shenanigans and self-parody Most young souther writers resent being compared to such past giants as Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. In embracing...