Word: deadpan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stand stock still and not blink...Mr. Hardy didn't have to be told to keep still because he was dead." And with no further ado, British author Beryl Bainbridge presents the first morbid snapshot in her 16th novel, Master Georgie (Carroll & Graf; 190 pages; $21), a deadpan tale of secrets and lies set in Liverpool and the Crimea in the 1840s and '50s. The story is told in alternating chapters by three characters: Myrtle, an orphan, in love with George, a doctor and amateur photographer; Pompey Jones, George's ambitious photo assistant and sometime lover; and Dr. Potter...
...that a news entity that calls itself "America's Finest News Source" would want the boast spoken by James Earl Jones and accompanied by John Williams theme music. In fact, the title has been appropriated by the Onion, a droll weekly newspaper published in Madison, Wis., devoted to producing deadpan, dead-on parodies of the resolutely low-key news reports wire services put out. Consider these recent headlines...
...deadpan introduction Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 called Goldberg an "artistic genius" and presented her with a picture of soon-to-be-sent official Harvard rocking chair engraved with the inscription "Rock on, Whoopi...
...Stuart is, as hokey as it may sound,necessarily honest to the reader and to herself.From this self-awareness stems her charming wit,uproariously deadpan delivery of madcap WASPmaneuverings and an impeccable sense of comictiming, matched with a poet's (or at leastrelated-to-a-poet's) awareness and a mother'stenderness. She is quick to admit to the bigoted,petty and, yes, manic shortcomings of hermuch-institutionalized family, but just as quickto admit her own shortcomings and accept them all.As this first cousin knows, being neurotic isgood, but knowing you're neurotic is even better
Dollhouse exuded a fashionably deadpan contempt for its characters. Happiness shows a deadpan sympathy for its denizens; and since one of them (Dylan Baker) is a child molester, another (Philip Seymour Hoffman) an obscene phonecaller and a third (Camryn Manheim) a lonely woman skilled in the use of kitchen cutlery, this tenderness is challenging. Scary...