Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whatever the biological or social truth of Wolves, the novel's artistic conviction cannot be separated from its language, a private brew of nuance, unexpected humor and explosive strength that can already be quickly and appreciatively distinguished as the Chase style...
...Mark Twain once said that the secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow...
...True, in my case. Humor was a coping skill, I guess you could say. A way of responding to the intense agony of my family. Performing was a way of being O.K. in a world that largely disgusted me. A friend once told me, and it's true, that one foot onto the stage and you're suspended in another world, a world you control totally...
...great extent it succeeds. When the various phases of Reni's work are assembled, he comes across as a far more diverse and interesting painter than one ever expected. His precocity and rate of absorption were equally striking, and they made room for sly humor, as in a pastiche of Caravaggio he did around 1605, when he was barely 30: David with the Head of Goliath, the David sporting a raffishly theatrical feather in his cap as he tilts the severed head like a connoisseur quizzing a sculptor. Some of his key paintings, such as the Prado's extraordinary Atalanta...
Ever outspoken, Roseanne Barr jokes about conquering the world, humor and the problems of growing up Jewish in the heart of Mormon country...