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...stereotype of the sex-obsessed perverted homosexual is offensive, not to mention somewhat ridiculous. It's pretty much a known fact that most students like to...and to think that either AFARM members, gay students or liberals are in the minority of people who like to...is much funnier than anything Lat said in his whole article...
...chiefly of rank anachronism and clumsy juxtaposition: A Wild West cowboy buys a condo from a realtor; Dionysus hits 50, gets de-deified, and sees a therapist about his midlife crisis; Don Giovanni dispenses romantic advice from the Sportsman Bar, where he plays piano. Maybe these stories would be funnier if Keillor were telling them himself. Perhaps the humor of setting one story in a town called Piscacatawamaquoddy (and then referring to it by name much too often) lies in the delivery. On the page it does little more than fatigue the reader...
...includes some taste for subtlety, for articulate, shabbily suave white boys who've learned from old soul ("Poor Old Soul Parts 1 and 2"--I could have just reviewed the record by listing the song titles), and who, for a few years, managed to sound both more honest and funnier than any of their less craftsmanlike compatriots...
Gray thinks that Proulx's highest gift is for comedy, and he may be right. Or it may be that the darker early stories (collected as Heart Songs) and Postcards are simply too rough to be read comfortably. But The Shipping News is funnier and kindlier than Proulx's other work -- not precisely light in tone, the author says wryly, but "light blue." Though the commotion of being abruptly famous feels "like I've backed into some bizarre machinery," her professional life is blissful now. This is not so much due to the shelfful of literary prizes she has collected...
What this whole thing really seems to hinge on is the polls. If Lee Iacocca can enlist Rush Limbaugh to persuade his listeners to rally round NAFTA, and if the Gore-Perot debate is scored on the basis of who's more right and responsible rather than who's funnier, the poll numbers will rise and NAFTA will pass...