Word: vaudevillians
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...himself with insecticide, rescued Pluto from the dogcatcher, crashed a car into a barn, fell behind on his rent, enlisted in the army, had his house repossessed, and lost Minnie to an innumerable string of muscular bad boys (although he always won her back in the end). The cartoons' vaudevillian overtones made liberal use of slapstick and puns, and Mickey's close association with children required that he always remain upstanding and moral (leaving the cantankerous Donald Duck to get into all the trouble...
They are almost as different from one another as they are from their predecessors. Díaz, Lahiri's fellow Pulitzer winner, writes wild, slangy, funny prose laced with Dominican Spanish and Star Trek references. His determination to entertain is almost vaudevillian. Lahiri's stories are grave and quiet and slow, in the 19th century manner. They don't bribe you with humor or plot twists or flashy language; they extract a steep up-front investment of time from the reader before they return their hard, dense nuggets of truth. It's difficult to quote from her stories: they refuse...
...little more than sheets stood on footstools waiting to be painted by Newbury Comics patrons. Sarah E. Paterson and Amandacera Hannon are just two of the Dolls’ cult of street-performer fans known as The Dirty Business Brigade who follow the band on tour and provide extra vaudevillian touches to already chaotically theatrical shows. “I first had the idea back in, oh God, 2004-ish to be living painted statues, because [Palmer] had always been a living statue and I had done that too, so we thought, how could we make it interesting...
...second was set in a vaudeville Yiddish theatre. The wandering plotlines, however, left the viewer confused. In the first act, for example, the link between the different characters’ stories was only revealed at the end, and in the second, only the scenery informed viewers as to the vaudevillian setting. It was the humor in the show’s 22 Yiddish songs and the sketches that carried the production, even if the grand finale—“Yiddish Rhapsody,†based on the well-known “Bohemian Rhapsody†by Queen?...
...with bizarre imagery like “myxomatoid kidsâ€); his wandering mind can’t quite convey his intended points (“Prolix! Prolix! / Nothing a pair of scissors can’t fix!â€). The music built around this communicative breakdown is vaudevillian and full of overlong, hyperbolic verses that drop without warning into heaps of hissing chaos, only to begin again in spotty, amnesiac continuity.The truly epic “More News from Nowhere†closes the album with recurring allusions to Homer’s “Odyssey...