Word: drollness
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...Droll Humor. A lanky 6 ft. 1 in., William King at 45 looks like one of his own sculptures. Born in Florida, he took up engineering, soon became bored and headed for New York. He enrolled at Cooper Union and, three years later, won a Fulbright scholarship to study sculpture in Italy. His earliest works were wood carvings of bathers, musicians and athletes, which owed much to American folk...
Even then his droll humor was evident. In 1964, while using burlap to impress the texture of cloth in his lost-wax bronzes, he hit upon the idea of making sculptures out of the burlap itself draped over metal armatures. He quickly became handy with a needle and thread, still chuckles over the fact that when thieves recently broke into his studio, they walked off with his old secondhand Singer sewing machine and ignored his sculptures (which command...
Always the social scientist, Gerzon avoids the droll stories, the epigrams and the sassy obscenity that made Kunen's Strawberry Statement so palatable. Whatever flavor there is in this book comes from a few sparse anecdotes which record the author's trivial brushes with the Establishment. In one encounter, a hawkish stewardess starts a discussion of the Vietnam war. She is confounded...
...vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th Century has never recovered from the effects of Marx or Froud." (V.G.); "but whether this a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This the quantitative aspect of grading-we are, after all, getting five dollars a head for you dolts and therefore pile up as many of you apiece as we can get-this is what too many of you seem to forget. "Coleridge may be said...
...DEVIL BY THE TAIL. Another droll essay by Philippe de Broca on the intricacies of love, starring Yves Montand at his sardonic best...