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...training in 1936. Babe Ruth wasn't around anymore to provide reliably flashy copy, and without him the team lacked charisma. This handsome new kid, the son of a Sicilian immigrant fisherman, looked promising. His awkwardness and reticence with reporters might be portrayed as enigmatic, as might his absolutely deadpan demeanor on the field. And advance word from DiMaggio's minor league exploits with the San Francisco Seals was that he could, in baseball parlance, "do it all": hit, hit for power, run, field and throw...
Liebman, who won the 1997 American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand-up, is lauded for her deadpan style of joke-telling. After talking for a moment about something, she delivers the one-line joke. The audience laughs. She delivers a shorter, sharper, even funnier line. The audience roars. She looks out at the crowd with surprise and shock, as if she's wondering how on earth that outrageous comment could have come from her mouth. And the audience loves...
Depeche Mode: a name that demands satisfaction. And The Singles 81>85 can satisfy, if you listen with a bit of willpower. Generally, the early songs on 81>85 are boring and odd: deadpan lyrics against bonky day-train melodies lead to wholesome industrial marches. Depeche Mode did have some moments in their youth-tinny drum hooks after the "People are People" chorus, a lot of pleasant moaning, pipey synth pushing throughout. By the second half of 81>85, DM starts timing its airy crescendoes very well and on tracks like "Blasphemous Rumours" and "Shake the Disease" you can feel...
...cast uniformly shines. Paton brings a wonderfully deadpan delivery to the character of Michael Majeski, sounding strangely like a sedated Garrison Keillor, while Hall is wonderfully neurotic as Livia. Danson and Derrah, as Delfina Treadwell and her assistant are guilty pleasures--the most cartoonishly satirical elements in the story...
...taken largely in the 1930s but never published before. A glimpse of the mostly unseen side of prewar Paris--brothels, gay bars, drag balls--it gave his reputation just the right twist for a postwar generation captivated by sex. What Norman Rockwell was to official virtue, Brassai was to deadpan indecency, fat sexpots and crazy love...