Word: humor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lowry matches Updike's portrayal of Rabbit Angstrom's wife drunkenly drowning her baby in his scene showing the besotted Consul desperately trying to place a telephone call. The beauty, the wordiness, the luxury and the humor of his prose find expression again and again in sentences such...
Still, there are a few scenes in Dark As the Grave that recall the control of Under the Volcano and Lunar Caustic, the humor and self-mockery that save Lowry's protagonists in spite of themselves. When the imagery gets a little too mucky even for Lowry's strong-backed readers to bear, he pushes his always tenuous symbolism gently over the edge, and it tumbles to the bottom with the almost comic relief of self-parody...
...happy and just glad. Vonnegut's books are very funny, easily the funniest things in print. Some people I know, mostly grown-ups, say that his books are almost exclusively funny. These grown-ups also like to give little names to what Vonnegut writes like "Black Humor," a phrase which is necessarily irrelevant if it is defined in terms of other people's writings...
...must be applauded for the style she brings to the production. Her second act entrance with an enormous Marie Antoinette headpiece, complete with decorative clipper ship, is a first rate metaphor of spectacle as the Hum 7 people would say. Her arch delivery makes for a kind of cutting humor that saves this trifle from being just a confectioner's tableaux...
PHOTOGRAPHY also serves humor. In "Miss American Icon" he "throws" photographs of a cross, and a star-shaped cutout of a face into a funny hand-scrawled wastebasket. The caption for this clever mixture of media is "old symbols...