Word: comically
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...band of Parisian printers bludgeoned to death a lot of cats, notably including the master printer's wife's pet, then subjected several of the animals to a mock trial and hanged them. More important, why did these printers of the 1730s think the butchery was so comic that they guffawed as they re-enacted it in pantomime more than 20 times? Was it sadism? Mass hysteria? Demonic ritual...
...should he be. In Fabio Carpi's unsentimental, indeed comic view of what would usually be presented as dark doings, youth need not apologize for its selfishness. And age has no choice but to accept it with whatever rue and wit experience has granted...
...comes complete with stock characters who spout cliches as often as brushing their teeth, and whose stock lines and insights render (surprise) stock solutions. All the same, director Jordan must be given some credit for taking the standard storyline of lonely male meets lonely female and giving it some comic embellishment...
Today Porter's love songs often suggest stale valentines: "So taunt me and hurt me,/ Deceive me, desert me,/ I'm yours 'til I die,/ ... So in love with you, my love, am I." His comic couplets are another matter. "Good authors too who once knew better words/ Now only use four-letter words/ Writing prose,/ Anything goes" has the secret of eternal impudence...
...Colosseum./ You're the top!/ You're the Louvre Museum") is so firmly structured and so rich in comic invention that it has served parodists since...