Word: humoristic
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...Family by Ian Frazier (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The author, first visible as a New Yorker humorist, then as an observer in Great Plains, an elegiac portrait of the American heartland, turns reflective and inward in this long, moody rummage in time's attic. He began to gather material about his near and distant family after the death of his parents, searching, he says, for the meaning of life, for "a meaning that would defeat death." The journey -- perhaps more correctly his obsession -- began in 1987. Collecting family papers, dating as far back as 1855, he filed them in two boxes...
...addition to being a deft humorist, Hughes is also an intellectual and radical bandit. Chic but never showy, Hughes treats nothing as sacred in her clever analysis. At one point during a conversation, a pause ensues as the actors look deeply introspective. A voice over says, "You are now witnessing a Pinteresque pause. If this were a Pinter play, there would be a lot of these." There are also "commercials" during the play spoofing consumerism and suburbia...
...right, reading a political humorist for details about the World Bank is as sensible as studying Oliver Stone's movie JFK for the facts of the Kennedy assassination. O'Rourke is after larger truths. But even the internal consistency of All the Trouble in the World is skewed. For example, to score points off former communists, O'Rourke catalogs the vast costs of pollution in the Czech Republic, but elsewhere he calls an unpolluted environment a "luxury good" and derides clean-up programs in the U.S. In one part of the book pollution helps trees; in another it kills them...
...mixture of jokes and anecdotes, Sahl--a humorist, satirist, screen writer and speech writer--entertained a standing-room-only crowd in Adams House yesterday afternoon...
...humorist--a celebrity since the 1950s currently performing his one-man show at the Hasty Pudding Theater--expressed strong confidence that the majority of American people still want to hear the truth...