Word: matter-of-fact
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...does not attempt to make such connections here. The sections on the campaign and those on his youth run along parallel tracks, and the story of his early life trails off after he graduates from college and decides to go to Europe and write. Both stories have a matter-of-fact air about them that suggests the author is more inerested in remembering his past than in interpreting...
Bill Maher, by contrast, has folksy good looks and a silky, matter-of-fact delivery that owes more to Jack Benny than to Rush Limbaugh. Yet what other current comedian looks for humor in the GATT talks and China's most-favored- nation trading status? That's just what Maher does on Politically Incorrect, his Comedy Central show that features the most eclectic political round tables on TV. Maher has mediated between Harvey Fierstein and ex-Mayor of Washington Marion Barry; brought Martin Short together with Jimmy Breslin; made Tom Hayden lighten up and Corbin Bernsen look smart. All without...
...discussing his craft, Jones is particularly matter-of-fact. Though he thinks "Heaven and Earth" could be 15 minutes shorter, he is quick to state that it's really none of my goddamn business. That's not what I'm paid for." When asked how he prepared for his role, Jones says as if it were obvious, "As well as I could." Only after a long, uncomfortable pause does he add, "Read all the books. Talk to all the people. Think all the thoughts. Rerun the memories...
...Middle America can understand. When today's children are adults, their experience of growing up with a gay parent, or having a childhood acquaintance who did, is apt to have demystified for many the otherness of gays. In sufficient numbers, that could lead to precisely the matter-of-fact outlook that gays seek and antigay conservatives fear...
...domestic tragicomedy, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, has been a hit on both coasts, and Frankie and Johnny became a movie with Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer. In his early hits Next and The Ritz, McNally revealed his fevered comic sense, satiric wit, robust skepticism toward authority and matter-of-fact agenda of including homosexuals in stories not "about" their world. All those are evident in A Perfect Ganesh, which is anything but an attempt to cash in on his sudden commercial appeal. There are flaws. While soundly constructed, with plenty of satisfying theatricality, the drama can be surreal, oblique...