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...made him a cult figure for millions of teen-agers during the 1960s; of cancer; in Los Angeles. One of the first and best of rock's high-pitched, jabbering deejays, Kaufman punctuated his broadcasts with shrieks, howls and a miscellany of sounds: trains crashing, cavalry charging, crazed laughter. He helped promote the Beatles during their first visit to the U.S. in 1964, and appeared in the rock quartet's second film Help! (1965). He often referred to himself as the "fifth Beatle." Blessed with prodigious energy, Kaufman is credited with bringing early attention to such performers...
Pure for sure, but deceptively simple. Each of her plays pries the audience's eyes open with an outrageous act, then makes them crinkle with laughter and moisten, just a bit, as Henley's daffy women reveal their desires and fears with slumber-party bravado. By the end of the evening, caricatures have been fleshed into characters, jokes into down-home truths, domestic atrocities into strategies for staying alive. Not bad for a young woman who, until three years ago, was eking out her stalled career as a Los Angeles actress by sitting at her kitchen table...
...Hoooo boy. It sure didn't take those Huskies long to bring it to 'emhuh' knew they'd bounce back. Of course, against a team like Harvard, you can't really tell, right?" And he broke into that self-assured laughter that is best left on the sit-come...
...sharp sense of the absurd. He learned that one of the White House servants, a robust woman of perhaps 190 lbs., believed in reincarnation, so he asked her what she wanted to be in her next life. A canary, she said wistfully. Roosevelt couldn't resist laughter. "I love it, I love it, I love it," he said. One of his most celebrated bits of clowning was his mock-solemn response to a Republican charge that he had accidentally left his Scotch terrier Fala behind on a trip to Alaska and then sent a destroyer to retrieve...
...occupations begin with B, plus a Beaver) in search of an inconceivable creature. It will ultimately consume one of them. At the end, there is no convenient awakening from a dream, as in Alice's adventures, no consolation of an afterlife. All that remains is "a torrent of laughter . . . Then, silence." The Hunting surfaces in Finnegans Wake and powerfully influenced T.S. Eliot. Auden compared it with Moby Dick and advanced it as a metaphor for "mankind and human society moving through time and struggling with its destiny...