Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. The protagonists of Tom Stoppard's ironic vehicle are the kind of men to whom life is like musical chairs and they, the losers, left without a seat. But they lose with such humor and verve that the spectators, while empathizing, enjoy the game...
...Composer Sergei Prokofiev was an accomplished concert pianist, and he left a large and lively legacy for his instrument. These recordings include such meditation miniatures as the 20 Visions Fugitives and nine sonatas, among them the famous Seventh, completed during the Battle of Stalingrad. One expects in Prokofiev dissonance, humor, percussiveness and strong drive; yet there is also much sheer lyrical beauty. Budapest-born Gyorgy Sandor plays the melodic passages poignantly and is a sure guide through the harshest chordal clashes-sometimes passionate, sometimes witty, always lucid...
...rarely allows herself to be photographed. Such clients as Joseph Heller (Catch-22), Thomas Pynchon (V.), and Bruce Jay Friedman (A Mother's Kisses) worship her for her combination of good business sense and warm understanding of their difficulties. The trade calls her "the Den Mother of Black Humor...
...London as a TV and film writer, delivers his blue bits with the relish of a nightclub comic shocking an audience of miniskirted grandmothers. It is totally irrelevant that the setting of the novel is England; despite its slapstick, Cocksure is well within the American mode of contemporary black humor that U.S. Critic Kenneth Burke has called "the drastic irony of paranoia...
...London who has the misfortune to be born white, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant in a time when the values of disaffected minorities are on the upswing. Cocksure's premise is that the special pleadings of minority groups-Jews, Negroes, artists, homosexuals-are funny. So Richler finds humor in the way Jacob Shalinsky, messianic editor of an obscure journal called Jewish Thought, hounds Mortimer with the wily accusation that he is really a secret Jew. And he finds rich irony in the fact that a svelte Negro beauty, who craves Mortimer's body, insists...