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...missing character is the author himself. Fusing text, traditional comic pages, gag strips, and photos, the book's form reflects its fractured content as it swings from detective pastiche to domestic anecdotes to meditations on the role of art. Through it all, Campbell maintains a sharp eye, strong wit and stimulating intelligence. Though not entirely coherent, Campbell's big thinking and sense of humor make The Fate of the Artist well worth enduring the brief moments of head scratching...
Fire Joe Morgan attacks so-called baseball pundits with statistical knowledge, sarcasm and a sharply biting wit, leading to some of the funniest and most dead-on analysis of baseball (and baseball commentary) that can be found...
...attempts to inveigle himself into the U.S. via the fictional Caspian splinter state of Absurdistan, only to get tangled up with the cynical local oil politics and the local dictator's foxy daughter. All the while he bemoans his fate with Nabokovian wit and efficiency--when he alludes to the "typical drabness of the one-room Soviet apartment, with the bulbous refrigerator shuddering in the corner like an ICBM before launch," you can practically smell the spoiled milk...
...same affable-dad-who-just-wants-to-reconnect-with-his-kids persona that he took on in “Mrs. Doubtfire” and “Hook.” But unlike Williams’ previous characters, Bob is a man of the 21st century whose wit stems from his cultural and technological savvy. He calls his son “home slice,” laments their lack of “‘7th Heaven’ moments,” and sagely explains to his children, “Life is hard...
...hard to deny the verbal dexterity that he brings to his major label releases—and his new release, “The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living,” is certainly no exception. Characterized, as ever, by moments of razor-sharp wit amidst a sea of mock-cockney diatribes and a blend of beats and influences that is sometimes too much to take, the new album does find Skinner in a new place, lyrically-speaking: the establishment. Having reached a new level of success after the release of his second album, the conceptual...