Word: drollness
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...ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered form the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolls and therefore pile up as many of you as we can get--this is what too many of you seem to forget. "Coleridge may be said to be both...
...riffs and power chords evoke their bombastic guitar-driven sound. The second half of the record opens with an audio clip from the film Caligula, in which the Roman dictator, played by Malcolm McDowell, declares himself a god; then, on the very next track, comes Ugly Truth Rock, a droll comment on the megalomaniac temptations of stardom...
...uprising. That kind of juxtaposition -- psychedelic sexuality matched with social commentary -- is the strength of the album. The wild abandon of the imagination is connected with the empirical world. "Ever since the riots/ All I really wanted/ Was a black girlfriend," croons Farrell on one song, a droll commentary on capricious white liberal guilt...
Jonathan Weinber handles his role as the police captain with droll aplomb. As a portrait of savagery, the captain delightedly lectures on execution and demonstrates on a dog Selig displays appropriate confusion and horror at such antics...
...such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud." (V.G.); "But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolls and therefore pile up as many of you a piece as we can get--this is what too many of you seem to forget. "Coleridge may be said...