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From the start John had a spooky, modernist poise. His taut mouth, his appraising eyes made him the group's soul and wit as surely as McCartney became its prime musical mover. Cynical, cool, Lennon was the eye of sanity in the Beatlemania hurricane. Asked, during the first U.S. tour, when the Beatles found time to rehearse their songs, he replied, "We wrote 'em; we recorded 'em; we play 'em every day. What do you rehearse? Smilin'--that's all we rehearse." His edginess suggested a roiling interior life; you could write a novel about what you imagined...
...ballad entitled "Never End," Redman seemed to mock any legitimate musical statements he may have made earlier in the piece by turning the tenor sax into a penny whistle. Irony in jazz is a good thing, but Redman's silliness is not the same as the sophisticated wit of a Duke Ellington, whose self-mockery in turn said something worthy of the listener's attention...
...wish-list for the future are perfecting his French in order to better read Rousseau and teaching a course on wit and humor in literature...
When he was young, he sensed a false view of life being preached by British conservatism, and he turned his considerable wit against it; as he grew older, he sniffed out totalitarian impulses emanating from the left and opposed them too. Spoon-fed the doctrines of literary Modernism--to be profound is to be obscure, the highest art is only to be understood by a cadre of initiates--Amis made rude noises. Coming across the claim that T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land is "the century's most influential poem" and "a supremely important poem," he snapped, "Importance...
...comedy, The Doom Generation, the cunning subtitle "a heterosexual movie." The director of the homo-erratic dramas The Living End and Totally F***ed Up is itching to break out, on his own terms. But straight or gay, black or white, these directors are defining the rage and wild wit of their peers who feel swamped in helplessness. The party's over, slackers. From now on, you're Degeneration...