Word: deadpan
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...Later I asked Premaratna if we had been in any real danger. "I know of men who have been closer to an angry wild elephant. But none of them are alive," he said, quite deadpan...
...enduring legacy of Undergraduate Council President Rohit Chopra ’04 will not be the quashing of preregistration, universal keycard access or urban planning measures from dance space to Allston. No, it’ll be the dry zingers he lets loose in public, delivered in his trademark deadpan. Chopra has never shied away from press—be it The Crimson, Business Week, or the Baltimore Sun—and he makes it worth a reporter’s while with remarks like the ones below, excerpted in chronological order...
...Audrey’s dentist boyfriend Orin, was entertainingly sadistic, although he might have benefited from a bit of voice amplification. Lucas J. Mix, as a customer and in a variety of other roles, appeared to take a cue from David Gest and ran with it superbly: his deadpan weirdness verged on hilariousness. On the production side of things, the set by Jeffrey C. Winer ’03 and the costumes by Patricia Gnazzo Pepper were charming...
...Larson, whose surreal, pothead-meets-scientist take on humans' overestimation of their species made cartoons cool, prefers his nondrawing, noncelebrated existence. "Life is good," he says, sitting at a wooden conference table, holding an antique specimen jar of chattering-teeth hand puppets, momentarily optimistic before reverting to his trademark deadpan form. "I probably have cancer...
...rockabilly phenoms like Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, but few of his songs were hard-driving rave-ups. I Walk the Line, Ring of Fire, Folsom Prison Blues--these are, if anything, contemporary folk songs. Cash sang of specific injustices and eternal truths; he was the deadpan poet of cotton fields, truck stops and prisons. He was a balladeer, really, a spellbinding storyteller--a witness, in the Christian sense of the word. Here was a man who knew the Commandments because he had broken so many of them...