Word: snarking
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...your sails, like when Simon attacks Ryan, and bounce back," says Idol executive producer Nigel Lythgoe. Ur-host Griffin--who once hired Seacrest for a failed game show but is not a producer of Idol--gushes over Seacrest's stage-managing of the live show, whiplashing from moments of snark to heartbreak to comedy faster than you can say Seacrest out! "Oh, boy, he's terrific," Griffin says. "He conducts thousands of people in the audience, the judges, people onstage. He's an improviser. He's freewheeling. He does...
...Some may even wonder if by making a film the creators are implicitly entering the very universe of mass-cult they rail against in the picture. Fear not. Unlike those shrill, hard-sell teen comedies on the other screens, "Ghost World" never becomes the kind of empty, defensive snark-fest that it targets. Clowes and Zwigoff keep the organic pace of the original, and its empathic exploration of painfully changing relationships...
...history of screwball farce) because Linda (Kelly Preston), his former fiance, has moved into a Lower Manhattan loft with Anton (Tcheky Karyo), her former lover. Sam, an astronomer, has rigged up a camera obscura in a tumbledown tenement across from their love nest, which he uses to snark on them. He charts the many ups and very rare downs of their affair, hoping to predict a big bang in their happy little universe. Maggie, a photographer, bugs the place, adding sound to his pictures, thereby doubling a misery that in this case does not particularly love company...
...history of screwball farce) because Linda (Kelly Preston), his former fiancee, has moved into a Lower Manhattan loft with Anton (Tcheky Karyo), her former lover. Sam, an astronomer, has rigged up a camera obscura in a tumbledown tenement across from their love nest, which he uses to snark on them. Professorially, he charts the many ups and very rare downs of their affair, hoping to predict a big bang in their happy little universe. It?s never easy being a spy in the house of love. It?s certainly not as funny as Dunne and Gordon must have thought...
...haunted and unraveling. Subplots involve a forlorn love interest and the burrowings of a suspected mole, but the real story, and a good one, is whether Jericho can track Enigma through the deep space of his own brain before he melts to ash. Great mathematical ability remains a snark that can't really be hunted in a novel, but the author provides what is possible, the illusion of understanding as an unearthly mind reaches for patterns in a mist of numbers...