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Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Timequake is the genuine celebration of life going on beneath the rant and beyond the darkly comic bitterness. Early in the book, Vonnegut quite earnestly exhorts everyone to appreciate the sublime moments of beauty that pass unnoticed. He recalls his Uncle Alex, a Harvard-educated insurance salesman who made a point of noting such moments by saying: "This is nice. If this isn't nice, what is?" It is this uncharacteristic warmth, emerging cautiously from beneath the book's crusty exterior, which ultimately makes reading Timequake a rewarding experience...
...event planned for this year will be a "Uno-thon." Students will play Uno continuously in an effort to raise money for Comic Relief, a non-profit...
Kaminuma admitted that another important reason for the trips into Cambridge was to please his young son, who was immersed in a newly purchased Japanese comic book as his father spoke...
...left packets of $100 bills in office-building lobbies or airport luggage lockers. He was obliged to make so many phone calls from public booths that he finally took to wearing a bus driver's coin changer... At first, committee members treated Ulasewicz as a welcome bit of comic relief. "Who thought you up?'' asked Tennessee Senator Howard Baker. "I don't know," replied a startled Ulasewicz. "Maybe my parents...
With his performance as Howard Brackett in In & Out--the Frank Oz comedy about an Indiana schoolteacher who is outed as a homosexual during a former student's televised acceptance speech at the Oscars--Kline brings his Shakespearean inner torment to a comic apex. "I always assumed he'd always known he was gay since adolescence," Kline says of the character. "But like most of us, he has found a way to accommodate that denial." His portrayal of Ben Hood, a father torn between responsibility and lust in The Ice Storm, a 1970s period drama set in suburban Connecticut, also...