Word: grotesquesness
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God Can't Be Perfect. Sometimes SN is awful. Comedian Albert Brooks' taped films were at first a regular feature, but offered only ten minutes of boredom. The Muppets are cloying grotesques. The funniest jokes are the simplest: a land shark who gobbles up apartment dwellers; a parody...
POOR MISS Lonelyhearts. It's not the most enchanting occupation, this playing Dear Abby to a world of grotesques, trying to find an answer for the frustrated and despairing who package their pain in ungrammatical letters whining for relief. Reporters are supposed to maintain a professional distance from their subject...
Over the past ten years, Tom Wolfe has set himself up as the Bugs Bunny of American journalism-a squeaky, impudent dandy with a glib eye for the lumbering victim. Toward the end of the '60s, New York appeared to be strewn with his targets, from rich Black Panther...
Ruin and Collapse. It is axiomatic in Beckett's work that the concept of purpose is beyond comprehension. This may not be true, but if granted only for the sake of argument, everything tumbles into place. Waiting for Godot was after all the critical knuckle cracking, simply a play...
Among abundant absurdities, this film boasts two of the least likely chase scenes in screen history. One would have done nicely, but Report to the Commissioner is out to break records, not always deliberately. The first pursuit takes place down Broadway and adjacent side streets when one of New York...