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...Jethro; of a heart attack; in Lansing, Ill. "Our first records were received with mixed emotions, like watching your mother-in-law drive your new Cadillac over a cliff," quipped Henry Haynes and Kenneth ("Jethro") Burns, the two Tennessee hillbillies who became a permanent team in 1936. Their deadpan delivery of such ditties as How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? soon caught on, and the drawling duo sold millions of records...
...world, the response reflected each country's stake in detente between China and the West. In Britain, which long ago recognized Peking with precious little to show for it so far, the Times rhapsodized: "The East Wind Is Kind." Moscow's Pravda restricted itself to a deadpan account of the U.S. table tennis team's visit to Peking. But the unspoken Soviet reaction could be judged from past editorials that inveighed against Sino-American "collusion" at Russia's expense. In Taipei, the China Times predictably warned in mixed metaphors that "the Chinese Communists hide a dagger...
Apart from the jocular jottings of Columnist Russell Baker, the New York Times is not noted for its humor. Some delightful deadpan gave a lift to its front page last week, however, when Music Critic Harold Schonberg was, as it were, thrown to the wolves...
Precision and Balance. Chance's resemblance to Voltaire's Candide ("We must cultivate our garden") and even to Buster Keaton's deadpan clown is fairly obvious. Despite the implausibility of the plot, the precision and balance of Kosinski's laconic prose, and his ability to animate a character who actually has no character at all, make Being There much more than the heavyhanded satiric fairy tale it might appear to be. More than an antihero, Chance is a non-character-the ultimate spectator-who reflects Kosinski's concern about the future of free will...
Trillin relates his Army story as humorous counterpoint to his deadpan account of a violent peace demonstration that took place just outside Fort Dix, N.J., on Armed Forces Day 1970. Between the public relations game of a peacetime Army and the pitched battles of war-sick civilians, a decade of change is neatly revealed. Nothing cosmic, only a clear, courteous reminder of how much things have changed...