Word: daffyness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A growing number of women writers are making the message familiar. In nine books in twelve years, Anne Tyler, 41, has populated an imaginary Maryland town with characters as memorable as those of Faulkner country. The hero of Morgan's Passing is a loud, daffy, unfathomable presence, as unexplainable...
DEATHTRAP BEGS to be compared to Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth, another closed-room, twist-filled thriller, and unquestionably loses out in the comparison. But with intricate plot twists (which unfortunately tend to fizzle toward the end), and some snappy dialogue, it makes a fair attempt at matching the wit and...
DIED. Karol ("Ken") Harris, 83, Hollywood cartoonist who helped create such lunatic movie characters as Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote and his nemesis, the Road Runner; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Harris also helped design the animation for the Pink Panther movie series and the film The...
And then there is Ryan's sidekick, Loose leaf Harper (Brian Sands), who, we're told, dropped the bomb on Nagasaki. Harper represents the daffy nonchalance of a mass murderer. Yet again, the plenitude of Big Themes hurts Wanda June, diverting from solid acting performances Sands, for example, portrays a...
Pure for sure, but deceptively simple. Each of her plays pries the audience's eyes open with an outrageous act, then makes them crinkle with laughter and moisten, just a bit, as Henley's daffy women reveal their desires and fears with slumber-party bravado. By the end...