Word: deadpan
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Like Johnson, Truman was mischievously delighted by his own surprises. Not until near the end of his peroration did Truman deadpan: "I shall not be a candidate for reelection. I shall not accept a renomination...
...Lichtenstein, 44, the Leonardo of the funnies, has attracted 20,000 people in his first ten days at London's august Tate Gallery, where he is the first living American to be given a full-dress retrospective. Critics rhapsodized over his Ben Day dots and thought balloons, his deadpan spoofs of modern art, his tear-stained blondes and stone-faced Steve Canyon heroes. Said the London Observer: "The calmest crystallizer of our generation, a kind of Ingres from Manhattan...
...body; never will those bodies do anything but make that one body," was a dry and witty piece done to the music of Ornette Coleman. Eight dancers jittered towards and away from each other, popped up and down, parodied square dance movements, or fulsomely collapsed on one another with deadpan faces, all to the delight of the audience. The success of the dance lav in its careful attention to tempo changes. Doubling, deliberately opposing or ignoring the beat of the music in the most impish way, the dancers looked as if they were motivated by some inner whimsy propelling...
Palmer has finally got away from Colonel Ross, his deadpan boss in M.I.5, and is now operating a seedy, one-man detective agency on his own. Suddenly a mysterious envelope arrives with ? 200 and a locker key, followed by a phone call from a stentorian computer instructing him to deliver the parcel that he will find in a London airport locker to a Dr. Kaarna in Helsinki. The package, Palmer soon discovers, contains deadly, virus-infected eggs...
...find sin and excitement and discovers in stead spiritual narcosis and boredom. Most Bowles characters seem to suffer from a total lack of motivation; they must be seen and interpreted solely in their relation to one another. The poker-faced prose is distinguished by a dry irony and deadpan humor that make Jane Bowles a kind of Buster Keaton of literature...