Word: sequitur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...directorial debut of Antonio Banderas, whose roles in recent films like Desperado and Mask of Zorro have not exactly demonstrated oodles of sensitivity. While Crazy in Alabama has its redeeming qualities and moments of comic relief (provided by a temperamental court judge and a talking head), its non sequitur scene sequence leaves one feeling a bit unsettled, but certain of one thing: tupperware sure keeps its contents fresh...
...surrealist Max Ernst, and, just as Ernst rearranged 19th-century engravings into his own fantastic collages, Gorey recombines the elements of forgotten Victorian novels, reshuffling the set pieces and stock characters after his fancy. One of my favorites, The Object-Lesson, is constructed along these lines, piling delicious non sequitur on delicious non sequitur, like this: "It was already Thursday, but his lordship's artificial limb could not be found; therefore, having directed the servants to fill the baths, he seized the tongs and set out at once for the edge of the lake, where the Throbblefoot Spectre still loitered...
...decision to drop out of the race for the Republican nomination. Awash in debt, his campaign has struggled not only with financial issues but also what could politely be called a credibility gap ? the shadow of Quayle?s infamous "potatoe" gaffe and his talent for the non-sequitur ("Had I known I was going to Latin America, I would have studied up on my Latin.") In bowing out, he bestows upon the rest of the GOP pack ? aside from Steve Forbes ? the privilege of mortgaging their lives for a chance to run against George W. Bush and the opportunity...
...extreme the situation can get. Craig Kilborn, the beggar's Letterman, did a particularly stupid bit on the eve of the World Cup final, when he waved an American flag for the team as he showed pictures of Foudy, Hamm and then Kournikova--and Kournikova, twice. Total non sequitur and mind-bendingly unfunny, but the message was clear...
...gonna laugh, but I did. He was called the King of the One-Liners, and he had a million of them. Recently he appeared at the Friars Club in a wheelchair, and he reeled off 40 one-liners before even saying hello. Everything was a non sequitur; there was no continuity, but there was a rhythm. He once said that after he did 20 jokes, he could just mumble and the audience would laugh, because it was his perfect rhythm that made him funny. Whenever anybody does a joke that has no rhyme, no reason, just rhythm, you'll think...