Word: ironizing
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...Cleese and Chapman, whose senior revue was directed by Trevor Nunn, were stars from their first auditions, with John doing "a routine of trampling on hamsters" (Pythons always had an animal fetish) and Chapman, in pre-med as Miller had been, impersonating "a man with iron fingertips being pulled offstage by an enormous magnet." Chapman's gift for physical comedy blossomed in a sketch about a man who wrestles himself - a bit reprised in Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl...
...Worrying about his hair-straightening iron going on the blink...
...confessions (except for the beautiful “I’ll Be Yr Bird,” which Ward performed in the encore before his band joined him), this did less to depersonalize the songs than it did to distance Ward from whisperer-confessors like Sam Beam of Iron & Wine...
...Across the entire spectrum, loud or quiet, there is a sense of familiarity with Ward, and it is a comfort that transcends the stories and sounds of his songs. It’s not so much the plaintive fragility of those with whom he is often compares (Beam of Iron & Wine, Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse), so much as a vulnerability we all share, channeled through stories with which we can all relate...
...problem is not, however, managerial. Those crying out for an Iraqi Mandela to reconcile sectarian foes in pursuit of the greater good - or even an Iraqi Mubarak, the benign authoritarian leader of Egypt who enforces stability with an iron hand - may not have noticed that the forces unleashed and empowered by the U.S. invasion and its democratic aftermath render both options unlikely...