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...declined to ask them "tall" questions, perhaps because she already got the last laugh with...
...react to this apocalyptic rubble of a '50s childhood--or to the sexual atrocities limned in Crumb's work? With the only two reactions that modern life demands: a laugh or a scream. The title on one page of a Crumb sketchbook reads, "Words Fail Me (Pictures Aren't Much Better)." But pictures allow Crumb to tell his own truth. To him, as to any artist who ascends deep into the bizarre, his work looks like reality. With care and wit, he draws his own demons and goddesses. One thing he never draws is conclusions. That is for the viewer...
...Cosette and company immigrated to the United States, it is safe to say that Alain Boubil's epic adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1500-page toms has a death grip on popular culture. It is the great international cry-fest, the teariest tear-jerker of them all. Its every laugh is tempered with reminders of the pre-revolutionary tribulations of France's lowest classes; and the jubilation of Valjean's victory over his past is mitigated by the despair of the students' doomed rebellion...
...were together last year were spent in other ways, but I was always glad to be there at 2 a.m. when we both slaved away on papers due at noon, when he would wave his arms in the air and proclaim "I'm doomed!"--and we'd both laugh, and be able to give each other support to make it through. This is a real relationship. I didn't need Lezama to tell me condescendingly, "So think about it, Rebecca." I think about it every day, and have for six years: every day when I write, call, or think about...
...plays we do are for entertainment, but everything has a message. We hope people don't just laugh and cry without understanding the deeper meaning," she says...