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...listen to even when she discusses unpleasant subjects such as suicides of Vietnam veterans, the war in the Gulf and issues of control and power surrounding women in America. Her use of an electronically deepened voice to imitate Reagan is at once funny and disturbing--like Reagan himself. A comic video interlude in which she appears as a freaky video dwarf reveals her light-heartedness and willingness to have fun. Anderson is not afraid to laugh at herself, but she maintains a serious impassioned monologue...
Jassel's predicament makes A Landing on the Sun both humorous and sad, and thus the novel will neither surprise nor disappoint readers familiar with Frayn's most recent work, The Trick of It. Like most of his plays, novels, and screenplays, A Lnading on the Sun is a comic work of light, unassuming wit, tempered with the author's usual quiet sense of the prosaic tragedy of life. Frayn's greatest strength rests in his talent at reconciling humor and sadness, and he achieves this rapprochement in the book with gentle facility...
...Dick, to whom she dedicates her lake-clear version of John Fogerty's lovely, lonesome Lodi, and she is a major admirer of Minnie Pearl. Well, land's sake, this album is full of surprises. Fans might not expect this strong and graceful singer to fall about over the comic antics of the dingbat with the price tag dangling off her hat, but if there's one thing EMMYLOU HARRIS excels at, it's surprise. And, at the same time, consistency. And a restlessness under the conventional constraints of country music. On Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers...
...ending up more knowing than anyone else who knew about the matter. The struggle is for a tone so wry and detached that revenge gives way to the work of reappropriating one's life. To psychoanalytical formulas about choosing the wrong partner, she responds with a cleansing comic nihilism: "Let's face it, everyone is the one person on earth you shouldn't get involved with...
...novel is a long comic monologue, closer to Portnoy's Complaint than to the higher-class Peyton Place that Mike Nichols made of the movie. "I have spent more sleepless nights wondering how I might have saved that movie," Ephron says. Probably she lost it the minute her first-person voice was removed from the script...