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...York Review of Books publishes column after column of some of the most entertaining personals. Many of them are suffused with a soft-focus romanticism. Firelight plays over the fantasy. Everyone seems amazingly successful. The columns are populated by Ph.D.s. Sometimes one encounters a millionaire. Occasionally a satirical wit breaks the monotony: "I am DWM, wino, no teeth, smell bad, age 40--look 75. Live in good cardboard box in low- traffic alley. You are under 25, tall, sophisticated, beautiful, talented, financially secure, and want more out of life. Come fly with...
...form that usually gives off a flat glare of one-dimensional optimism. It is hard not to like the "well read, well shaped, well disposed widow, early sixties, not half bad in the dusk with the light behind me." She sought a "companionable, educated, professional man of wit and taste," and she probably deserved him. Her self-effacement is fairly rare in personals. The ads tend sometimes to be a little ner- vous and needing, and anxiously hyperbolic. Their rhetoric tends to get overheated and may produce unintended effects. A man's hair stands on end a bit when...
...makes, fractured and rhythmic and inventive, touches amusingly on endless varieties of weirdness. Starting out, the nucleus of the band formed in Providence in 1974, when Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, students at the Rhode Island School of Design, fell in with David Byrne, occasional student and otherworldly wit. Moving a couple of hundred miles south, and joining up with Keyboard Player Jerry Harrison, they became the premier house band for New York City's young artistic community. Artist Robert Longo even inserted a life-size cutout of Byrne, the group's lead singer and driving force, into a construction...
...same is true for funnyman John Candy. As the perverted older brother in Splash, he added life and silly comic wit to what was otherwise a fun, but not necessarily funny story. In Vacation, his brief appearance provided a welcome relief to Chevy Chase's not so funny slapstick...
...also had enough voice lessons in American English, and gained enough U.S. exposure that a Casey Kasem-like voice does not have to be dubbed over his harsh Australian drawl (as was done in the first Made Max). In any case, there is now a layer of wit stacked over The Concept of Hero as Road Warrior...