Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...song. Suprisingly, Kate, who wrote Ronstadt's big hit, "Heart Like a Wheel," didn't write this one; David Nitchern did. And as well composed and well-arranged as this song is (the concluding strings are striking), it just isn't McGarrigle. These girls have a sense of humor...
...wonder what there is to think about all day in the backwoods of Canada. This off the wall song, which basically tells of the romantic side to the chemical bond that makes salt, in a gentle-twangy country melody, is probably pointless, but it showcases the sisters' dry humor. Lyrics like...
Love scenes aside, Corky's exchanges with Fats provide the only riveting moments in the movie. The early dialogues inject some much needed, if admittedly ghoulish, humor into the film; the later ones are truly terrifying, as Corky literally spins out of control. The dummy looks amazingly like Hopkins, with exaggerated features that caricature the actor's perfectly. This mocking resemblance not only allows for several nice shots contrasting the two faces, but emphasizes the entire concept of Fats and Corky's alter-ego. Fats' face, like his personality, becomes a grotesque parody of Corky...
Thank you, Frank Rich, for your indictment of Erma Bombeck. Her humor is trite, repetitious and chauvinistic. It is frightening that such a recipe can be mistaken for genuine satire...
What we miss for this part of the great plebiscite is the services of H.L. Mencken to write about the Carnival of Buncombe, to lay about him in good humor over the "rogues and vagabonds, frauds and scoundrels" who pump "stale bilge" around this "lugubrious ball." But even a man of such laser eye as Mencken confessed that after damning politicians uphill and downdale for years, a certain faith in the process kept re-emerging and he looked to politicians "to be able, diligent, candid, and even honest." That is a tall order, but one suspects that we will...