His jerky movements and sinister singing voice complement the familiar musical tunes, which are deliberately cheesy for comic effect. |
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The comic tale of an Anglo-Indian boy constantly swapping identities, it was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and Guardian First Book Award. |
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Leigh is also renowned for his dialogue, which is consistently authentic and loaded with comic repetition and misunderstanding. |
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He cannot read or write, and spends his days in prison coloring and looking through comic books. |
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He has a cranky Luddite streak, and he may be amplifying it for comic effect. |
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Shakespeare's ambivalently comic treatment of power, sexuality, and repression belongs very much to the early years of the Jacobean period. |
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They both did neat comic turns as the Devil, a role once amusingly danced by Baryshnikov. |
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In order to make a creature that even vaguely resembles the comic book version, special effects are obviously necessary. |
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This comic operetta tells the story of a South Sea Island despot who wishes to anglicise his island by importing all things English. |
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Both companies were established more than 65 years ago, but at one point Marvel was producing 60 comic book titles a month. |
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But Roy would take a single frame from a cartoon or comic strip and turn it into an entire painting. |
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The film has no shortage of beaut comic actors, nor was it light-on for plot possibilities. |
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There is a comic roundelay that makes sense on its face, but if you think about it for a second, you realize how forced and unreal it is. |
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The Miller Glasgow International Comedy Festival has finally arrived as a major fixture in the comic calendar. |
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Paintings of fleshy nudes line the walls, and pillars are plastered with pictures of a chubby comic book character. |
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More than 20 panels are hung in a row around the gallery like segments of a long comic strip. |
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Mr. Cooper, luckily, is well qualified to keep such comic material within range of masculine bearability. |
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I see no reason why a comic book genre film cannot be taken seriously, building genuine drama, rather than melodrama. |
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Regrettably, history has not proven this to be the case, as plenty of horrendous titles have been produced with comic book tie-ins. |
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As galvanic as Holliday is Cleavant Derricks as a slam-bang comic belter sadly beached by new musical tides. |
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The net gun is only one of the devices, previously the stuff of comic books, which have become part of the armoury of police forces. |
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The London-based comic created his life coach alter-ego to satirise the world of self-help and corporate jargon. |
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The film runs like a series of comedy sketches rather than as a comic whole. |
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Only the writers get the virtual slap on the wrist for artificially inserting too much melodrama into a story that should have been a comic romp. |
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The movie is a sly comic romp that transforms the realities of rock and roll into a fantasy farce about joy, fame, and isolation. |
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Step one is his novel, a hilarious romp intended to remind readers that the comic neurotic is also a talented writer. |
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This is an enjoyable, though average, transposition of comic book heroes to the big screen. |
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What unfolds is a riot of comic mayhem as mistaken identity leads to uproarious farce throughout. |
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This was a day-trip into the darker corners of immortality and isolation with a slab of comic humour to boot. |
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The very thing that aesthetes complain about, the wild mash-up of comic books with other products, becomes one of the strengths of the show. |
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What begins so promisingly as a satire or perhaps even comic romp leaves an uneasily nasty after-taste. |
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As in comic strips, dots trail up to the balloon, indicating you are thinking. |
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Thus small-time con man Moss gets mixed up with real villains and, predictably, blackly comic scrapes ensue. |
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She began her career playing light comic roles in ballad opera and pantomime and became one of the most versatile performers of her day. |
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Last night, for example, the audience spanned all ages, and all were familiar with the ballads, torch songs and comic ensemble pieces. |
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Tenchi Muyo was another thing she got me, a comic about Sasami being asked to make carrot cakes for a baker. |
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Lisa's collection consisted mostly of some science fiction and fantasy, comic books, and computer manuals of varying sorts. |
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In the comic book world, too, spiders, which are of course really arachnids, are considered insects. |
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Huge roars of laughter fill the comedy club, as the stand up comic struts his stuff. |
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The film feels grittily authentic at times and like a comic road movie at others. |
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Unfortunately it succumbs to its meaner instincts in the second half, indulging in romantic schmaltz with the occasional inspired comic riff. |
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He was an up-and-coming comic then, a strange androgynous mix of lunacy and manic energy. |
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Anime has strong links to manga, the thriving Japanese comic book industry from which it sprang. |
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His hobby was collecting Japanese comic books, also known as manga, and he always seemed to have oily hair. |
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Anime, manga and the more violent of comic titles are not marketed to children. |
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Keith's comic timing and expressive delivery made for a truly riveting performance. |
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I am supposed to move the story along and provide comic relief or cynicism wherever I can. |
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To encapsulate his humanitarianism in this immensely accessible ribaldry is a triumph of serious intention within comic means. |
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For years thereafter, the comic book would dutifully be gathered up every evening and locked in a safe. |
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Allen, of course, hotly denies this, arguing that his lusty, maladroit, cowardly, witty and nebbish persona is a comic archetype. |
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This makes for comic and moving moments in a deep-thinking, pertinent play that is both heavy and light on the heart. |
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Brian went to hand the comic back but then brought his other hand up and made a small tear on the front cover. |
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Unfortunately, Sutherland plays a pony-tailed satyr of only limited charm, and Garner, who is a fine comic actor, is never really put to work. |
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The comic book itself has changed since the days when the market was saturated with mass-produced comics. |
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Tan's mild political satire maintains a wry humour that complements the general comic tone. |
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Occasionally, satire or irony can illuminate a subject in a clever or comic way without leaving you chortling uncontrollably. |
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It might have been comic were it not for the fact that someone was likely to end up being killed. |
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This franchise is largely responsible for the revitalisation of the comic book adaptation. |
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This blackly comic theme is handled with Wilde's characteristic dazzle and wit. |
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The comic directly targets several audience members in turn throughout his or her act. |
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The start of the race was delayed in comic style with Oxford unable to get back into their team bus where their kit was locked away. |
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It is disgusting how anti-American rubbish is now being spewed out by certain children's comic books. |
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The comic version may well turn out to be the writer Alan Moore's magnum opus. |
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Having secured two acting legends and a comic madcap, the rest of the casting fell into place. |
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I've got the first one, and the stories really lend themselves to the comic format. |
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Two notable new releases by filmmakers known primarily as independent auteurs take on reality in highly comic ways. |
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This comic moment emphasizes Bergot's poverty and makes Lily's retrieval of the money more daunting. |
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Her biography of Nietzsche is a double hagiography, comic and almost sad in its reflection of her own will to power. |
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The comic treatment offsets the grim subject matter and the film won a well-deserved trio of Oscars. |
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He seemed a bit nervous at first but soon settled and gave his usual comic performance. |
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His work has led to him appearing with legendary comic talents ranging from Norman Wisdom to Bruce Forsyth. |
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It is whackily comic with irreverent overtones and moments of quite startling seriousness. |
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Modern cabalists and chaos magicians often attribute popcult phenomena like comic book characters, music, etc. to the ten sephira. |
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The comic elements included in the play needed to be handled with a deft touch rather than a heavy hand too. |
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Anyone else wants in on a very casual group comic blog, with no real guidelines and no minimum posting requirements, just let me know. |
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But behind the comic veneer was a clear message about the dangers of wanton sexual activity. |
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This absurdist children's comedy starred the standup comic as a pizza delivery man. |
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It's a hilarious film full of gems of comic absurdity that are mixed in with nonchalant understatement. |
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His comic annual was selling half a million copies a year and he was the subject of a whole range of merchandising material. |
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Since colonial times a strong Australian accent has been associated with lower class and broad comic characters. |
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After a while, she sort of grudgingly accepts him, and their relationship provides much of the comic relief in the series. |
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Renaissance play quartos were about the size and shape of modern comic books and sold for sixpence. |
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His love affair with The Stand began in 2000 when the comic came to Edinburgh to study divinity. |
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There's a fast-food feel to it, as if it was rushed through the Hollywood grinder without much attention to scripting or comic timing. |
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Each story was a report, essentially a series of gags, rather than a story with its own comic jet propulsion. |
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John Raw has a liking for comic roles, and it is easy to see why on making his acquaintance. |
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And it is quite apparent to me, in retrospect, that without Mostel's comic genius this might be a very wearisome play to watch. |
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I may be the last to know this, mainly because I'm behind in my web comic reading. |
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The comic had risen through the standup ranks, working hard at developing an act after his initial performances drew derision. |
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Its loose structure is concerned less with broad narrative arcs than with random, largely comic snapshots of ruination. |
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In some markets, weeklies or monthlies picked up the comic after dailies dropped it. |
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She broke out into a jog and rushed towards the man nearing the comic store. |
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Gartner takes his pattern of repetition to a comic level in an editorial urging donations to the local public radio station. |
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Entire excerpts from previous movies are lifted, but with surreal twists on the already surreal situations insinuated to great comic success. |
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Collins has no truck with the notion that his fledging career has a rags to riches plotline beloved of comic book fantasy. |
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It's been said that master comedian Bob Hope never delivered an ad-lib line and Kormos says it's rare to find a comic who can truly improvise. |
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Everyone agreed that Bryan Singer had done an admirable job in bringing the Marvel comic to the screen. |
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No school gyms of adulating audiences on their feet to cheer the genius, no comic book figures dropping bon mots could press those keys. |
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The way he asked for money put to use his prodigious talents as a preacher, a wheedler, a comic and a man in dire financial need. |
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Do you believe that juvenile delinquency would decrease if crime comic books were not readily available to children? |
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The Music Box is a perfect distillation of comic character, and it contains wheels within wheels of humiliation for our heroes. |
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An acute political awareness and a fondness for '50s comic strips inform his odd blend of malevolence and whimsy. |
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A lame script and horrible comic acting from lead Brendan Fraser speak louder than all of Selick's whiz-bang animations. |
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In the classic whodunit, in contrast, the situation itself may have strong comic possibilities. |
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This comic tells stories from the lives of an agender person, their wife, and their cats. |
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Dapper of dress and genial of manner, Corbett seems the antithesis of the tortured comic suffering endless agonies for his art. |
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If the balance sheet comes out ahead enough to indicate a decent profit, the comic or in broader terms the company is healthy. |
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Not unless there's a mortgage company that takes down payments in sixties Superhero comic books and Great Aunt Martha's willowware. |
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It is in those moments when we face our fears that laughter is especially welcome, and comic and tender memories are held dear. |
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It seems you can't have a respectable blog these days unless you can make your own comic strips or do funny recaps of TV shows. |
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He sets up multi-frame shots, emulating the look of a comic book, with a plethora of flashy screen wipes and dissolves. |
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Due to the sheer annoyingness of printing these things, the comic is only available very rarely, and in print runs of only 16 at a time. |
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The effect of these works is kinetic and compares to cells in film or frames in comic strips. |
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In my eyes this was grand witchery of the same proportions as the zombification chronicled in my comic books, or lightning, or popcorn making. |
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He manages to translate the comic perfectly and at the same time create believable characters and situations. |
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These comic set pieces sweeten the icing that coats Layer Cake's underlying darkness. |
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Never missing a comic beat, their charisma worked every time and they knew how to milk the audience dry. |
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When artwork is returned from a comic book, the penciller gets two thirds of the pages, the inker the remaining third. |
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The crowd was quite young, mostly twenty somethings in unintentionally comic woolly hats. |
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Performed without words, it is a deeply elemental, emotive and darkly comic piece of theatre. |
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Diane Keaton directs and stars in this patchy comic King Lear about a dying father and his three daughters. |
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The plot is loopy, dopey and tiresome, and the comic asides don't elicit the smallest of smiles. |
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But because of the realities of the marketplace, the material is first serialized in comic book form. |
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It's possibly the most accurate adaptation of a comic you'll get, in terms of the visual look and the narrative style. |
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Published as a comic strip since 1936, the Phantom also appeared in movie serials, a feature film, and animated television series. |
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Since the attempts of the 70s, legal wrangles over ownership of the comic book hero had prevented production. |
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The silkscreen prints command a beefy price, but the book's meat is the bleak, brilliant comic at its centre. |
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Bolton comic Martin Davies, alias The Mighty Swob, has been recruited as narrator. |
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His direction is perfect, managing to condense a 2200-page comic into a two-hour film. |
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Is Australia's comic style too laconic to fit the rapid-fire style of a classic screwball? |
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Ultimate Spider-Man is very much a teen story, a YA comic before YA became a thing. |
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Few independent comic artists have succeeded in gaining a toehold in the lucrative spin-off market. |
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Davis became one of many who would hide his comic book pages when a supervisor came by, and hurriedly return to animating Popeye cartoons. |
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Once again, Danae's impregnation by gold is presented as a desirable rather than lamentable event in this comic context. |
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True, Dwarves provided comic relief in The Hobbit but that was originally written as a children's book and not as a 'serious' work. |
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The utter terror with which they cower before him is at once comic and disturbing. |
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Cruise is as comfortable with darkly comic scenes as with the nuances of a remorseless killer. |
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Sunil Kumar has used the comic character of Charlie Chaplin to convey his message through the film. |
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These sisters were not only good comic performers, they could sing too, with superb solos, duets, trios, quartets, quintets and harmony, backed by a small musical ensemble. |
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In his development of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in a quarter-century of Warner Bros. cartoons, Chuck reached and raised the acme of comic animation. |
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Nevertheless, this couple provided us with the much-needed comic relief. |
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Its style, archetypical characters and comic situations are given their full measure and mirth by the Bell Shakespeare Company, albeit with a slightly modern twist. |
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For once, the boundless nature of comic story-telling is actually being used to cross boundaries. |
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Movie adaptations of comic books are always a let-down and trailers these days are front-loaded with all the best bits to lure gullible moviegoers to the multiplexes. |
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They had a comic book section, and I would bring all the change I collected from the week and dump it on the comic book stand. |
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For years characters like these ruled corner store comic racks across North America, earning a loyal fan base and selling hundreds of thousands of copies each month. |
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The man with the skinny tie tells me that the comic book is transported in a manila envelope. |
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This comic novel, though antic rather than earnest, very different in style and tone from Naipaul, is serious about race, social class, immigrants, and outsiders. |
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Many early New Zealand comic artists used Maoriland as their theme. |
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A gifted comic and an inspired character actor, Shortt stared in Paddy Breanacht's new film, Man About Dog and played the unforgettable Tom in Father Ted. |
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For every cigarette, there is a lollipop, and for every act of violence or despair, there is a moment of sheer comic absurdity. |
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He builds up an atmosphere of breathless jollification, comic hysteria, and turns it up to a pitch so high it can hypnotize kids and keep them frozen. |
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Gone are the purple booty shorts, tank top, and hood that comic book fans are familiar with. |
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It's amazing how many high profile comic adaptions there are this year. |
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What do you think prompted the change in comic book representation of LGBTQ characters? |
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The show had moved to MTV in 1996, where his co-host, wise-cracking Adam Corolla, played the comic relief. |
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Goober Pyle and his happy go-lucky cousin Gomer offered endless hours of comic relief on The Andy Griffith Show. |
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Rooting around for unique observations that have universal resonance offers emotional release to you, and comic relief to others. |
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But for all of her comic relief, Blankenship became a tragic figure in the Mad Men mythos, dying silently at her desk. |
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Billy the Fish is the hero of an English comic strip about a fish-man hybrid who is a football star. |
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If only I could live inside that comic strip, I knew that I would find the happiness that I never had in the real world. |
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When Radford and Wayne were not reprising their roles as Charters and Caldicott, they played other comic duos who usually bore a striking resemblance to them. |
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The vibrant cast in modern dress hurl contemporary references, songs, slang and asides into Shakespeare's verse, accentuating the comic and the physical. |
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Despite being a comic book consumer, for me the con is less about the comics and more about the costumes. |
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Jon, the focus of the book, spends his laconic, carefree schooldays fooling around with his best friend Bjorn, reading comic books, eating candy and telling jokes. |
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Even in death, the comic genius has raised a laugh among his adoring fans. |
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I bought Tarzan comic books, and even had a few issues of ERB-dom, a mimeographed fanzine devoted to the works of Burroughs. |
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While other jazz cats describe their music in liner notes, Carey relies on a comic strip. |
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No, but they had the sterling comic timing of the professional funnyman, hard-won in a thousand tank towns on the vaudeville circuit, and that is more than enough. |
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As such, the limitless nature of comic book fantasy is used, by and large, to keep limits in place. |
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As superhero juggernauts DC and Marvel enter the 21st century, the debate over diversity in comic books is picking up steam. |
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And that evening it created the scene of hardcore hip-hop heads mingling with comic nerds. |
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Growing up, I started to attend comic conventions and to be aware of the cosplay world. |
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Admittedly, most of the cast lack the comic timing to make all the jokes fly, but for every joke that does fall flat there are at least two more that work. |
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Then out comes a comic magician in white tie who does a long card trick that depends heavily on the continued reappearance of a black card in a group of red cards. |
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Though Acey has done some writing for the comic strip, most of his work involves either products or publishing, since Garfield has become a merchandising behemoth. |
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While an often brilliant comic actor, gervais is relatively new to stand up and has never achieved the top tier of that art form. |
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The men preside over three display cases, each with three shelves, seven comic books per shelf. |
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This darkly comic fable tells how the revenge plans for a New Year's Eve party go horribly wrong, as two wicked sisters plan the downfall of the third and most successful one. |
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The series, so very loosely based on the Eastman and Laird comic book creation, spawned a cornucopia of merchandise, some feature films, and a live action TV show. |
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He uses various comic conventions such as satire, farce, absurdism, and irony to attack widely divergent cultural philosophies, politics, and ethics. |
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Fashion Beast, a kooky comic book from Avatar press that attempts to merge the nerd world with fashion sensibilities. |
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As far as celebrity doppelgangers go, no one can top comic actor Will Ferrell and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer chad Smith. |
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But Andy didn't just do cool little comics, he was also something of an academic, holding forth in debates about the origins and minutiae of comic strip art. |
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Locked inside this menagerie of failed comic bits are attempts at real anger, sadness, pathos, broad sight gags and genuine rock and roll metal moves. |
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As the man-eating Diane, she displays impeccable comic timing. |
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This starring show allowed him full rein to plunder his comic armoury. |
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In the comic books, he sticks around at least until the group reaches the Alexandria Safe-Zone. |
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Popular presenter Sue Sweeney brings her quick wit and comic humour to a new show on Saturdays starting at 9.00 am following the success of her Tuesday evening programme. |
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The look and feel of the sets and lighting are designed to suggest the lurid splashes of colour and active space that typify the conventional comic book. |
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Much of the time, she is wonderfully funny about it, and good-humored, the supernatural her accomplice in comic relief. |
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Our longstanding fear, it seems, turns out to be about as valid as the death ray deployed by Buck Rogers in comic strips. |
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Bizarrely enough, an odd little comic tune plays as background music. |
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Pair her hotness with her salty mouth, and she will make a great comic or host in the vein of Sarah Silverman or Jenny McCarthy. |
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He began working as a background inker on the comic book Ghost Rider. |
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His performance, torpidly solemn and self-conscious as a potential Oscar winner, has a fraction of the zip of his comic turns in Pirates of the Caribbean and Ed Wood. |
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First they're nicking comic books, then knocking off whole banks! |
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While it angered fans to see the comic strip depart the funny pages, the animated version gained serious attention. |
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McGruder is the creative genius behind The Boondocks, a five-year-old comic strip that honors no sacred cows and eviscerates politicians of all stripes. |
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In fact, most of Link's comic relief throwaway lines fail miserably. |
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At the Los Angeles press conference for her new comic indie drama The Joneses last week, Moore, 47, looked great. |
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In the original Marvel comic books, the Mandarin was born and bred in China, a descendant of Genghis Khan no less. |
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He still characterises himself as having a foot in both the stand-up and theatre worlds and is currently working with Murphy on putative comic projects. |
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Every year at the annual Comic-Con International, they let me host a batch of wonderful events, most of them about the history of the comic book medium. |
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Longtime artists and writers Tim Seeley and Tom King lead the team behind the comic series Grayson. |
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Much of this iteration of the Man of Steel borrows from the comic books for relevance. |
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Black Alice and Strix have origin stories that more closely resemble the archetypal comic heroes. |
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I turn to the ancient Greek comic author, Aristophanes, speaking at what must have seemed a similar time. |
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The complication of Loden's writerly comic procedure is all in the nuances and gestures of meaning conveyed by particular word-choices, tones and implications. |
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At the time, many in the audience only had a cursory knowledge of comic books. |
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Waldman overlays her comic situations and satiric conversations with ironic literary allusions and witty wordplay. |
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And bonus points for the school bus that burst into flames with the comic timing of a Simpsons gag. |
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Even in Lincoln's day the wax museum invited comic treatment. |
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The script is a series of vignettes, short dialogues in which people often talk at cross purposes to each other, sometimes to comic effect, sometimes not. |
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Meanwhile, you can stop or start a comic book at your leisure. |
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The real Harvey Milk was a veritable Lenny Bruce of comic timing and New York City street smarts. |
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The equivalence between comic books and Scripture is telling of how seriously canon is taken by these fans. |
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These faceless and thankfully fangless insects might at first give the comic impression of scuttling in search of food. |
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This could have been played seriously as in a caper film and worked much better than the roly-poly actor stumbling around trying to pull off the job for comic effect. |
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Feminists are the new comic book geeks, and the women-led Ghostbusters remake will dominate the box office. |
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The plays of Aristophanes, the only classical Athenian comic playwright of whom complete plays still survive, are characterized by their biting social and political satire. |
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It is understood that the Varun Dhawan starring comic entertainer has D' Cruz in the meatier role over Fakhri. |
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She was not in the Princess' hair all the time nor did she watch her like a comic spy in a high drama of intrigue and discovery from a bhavai. |
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Bill Ward has always been known for drawing the biggest, bustiest, most bodacious babes to strut across a comic book or cartoon panel. |
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Tintin, the comic strip hero with the button nose, poppy-seed eyes and blond flip hairdo, is now an institution. |
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The soul of dialect is cacography, the deliberate misspelling of words for comic effect, which is the written equivalent of the malapropism. |
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Fans of the genre frequently gather at comic book and sci-fi fanfests, which often screen Japanimation films. |
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Rabelais's vision is too fundamentally comic for him not to see that a certain kind of humility is not far from gaumlessness. |
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It's like saying that Dickens put in all this crude, comic stuff to please the groundlings. I don't think he did. |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is a witty mixture of romance, fairy magic, and comic lowlife scenes. |
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The popular comic actor Will Kempe played the servant Peter in Romeo and Juliet and Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, among other characters. |
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Thomas Rymer, for example, condemned Shakespeare for mixing the comic with the tragic. |
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They encounter Empousa, the comic monster, who reminds us in spite of her laughableness of the dangerousness of the other. |
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Here is a novel of low comedy and high raillery. It's a lollapalooza that turns out to be a comic elegy for old-time radio. |
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Broadly comic performances, the most common type features a doctor who has a magic potion able to resuscitate the vanquished character. |
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Plautus scattered songs through his plays and increased the humor with puns and wisecracks, plus comic actions by the actors. |
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Hermia and Lysander are both met by Puck, who provides some comic relief in the play by confounding the four lovers in the forest. |
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The contrasts between the interacting groups produce the play's comic perspective. |
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Within this general progression, however, Jonson's comic style remained constant and easily recognisable. |
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Part of Austen's fame rests on the historical and literary significance that she was the first woman to write great comic novels. |
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He also shows rare sympathy for the chief inspector and his comic domestic life. |
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Chaplin's comic performance, however, was singled out for praise in many of the reviews. |
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Shops were stocked with Chaplin merchandise, he was featured in cartoons and comic strips, and several songs were written about him. |
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The classic Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera The Pirates of Penzance focuses on The Pirate King and his hopeless band of pirates. |
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The producers do their best to edit bland events into comic minibites, but those mostly look lame and forced. |
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Early versions of the American newspaper comic strip and the American comic book began appearing in the 19th century. |
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In 1938, Superman, the comic book superhero of DC Comics, developed into an American icon. |
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Other comic books and graphic novels such as Eagle, Valiant, Warrior, and 2000 AD also flourished. |
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Prominent comic book artists include Steve Dillon, Simon Bisley, Dave McKean, Glen Fabry, John Ridgway and Sean Phillips. |
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There was general relief among critics when Scoop, in 1938, indicated a return to Waugh's earlier comic style. |
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The character has also been adapted for television, radio, comic strip, video games and film. |
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He would like to be something of a popular entertainer, and be able to think his own thoughts behind a tragic or a comic mask. |
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It is widely seen as Moore's best work, and has been regularly described as the greatest comic book ever written. |
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As of April 2016, Moore has been curating a comic book anthology series entitled Cinema Purgatorio published by Avatar Press. |
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Moore's work in the comic book medium has been widely recognised by his peers and by critics. |
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I wanted to show off just what the possibilities of the comic book medium were, and films are completely different. |
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His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. |
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Sullivan continued to compose comic operas with other librettists and wrote a number of other major and minor works throughout the decade. |
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Sullivan returned to comic opera, but because of the fracture with Gilbert, he and Carte sought other collaborators. |
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When Sullivan turned to comic opera with Gilbert, the serious critics began to express disapproval. |
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Gilbert's creative output included over 75 plays and libretti, and numerous short stories, poems and lyrics, both comic and serious. |
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He would later return to many of these as source material for his plays and comic operas. |
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Sullivan continued to compose comic opera with other librettists but died four years later. |
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Similarly, Gilbert had written several plays at the behest of comic actor Ned Sothern. |
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These drew on the traditions of comic opera and used elements of burlesque and of the Harrigan and Hart pieces. |
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The same year, the film of Leslie Thomas's 1966 comic novel The Virgin Soldiers saw Bowie make a brief appearance as an extra. |
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For the ceremony, he donned Cooper's trademark fez and performed a comic routine. |
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Needless to say, he nails it. His Deadpool strikes the perfect balance between acerbic smartass and comic doofus. |
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Jeff Johnson's nebbishy Blanche, for example, is a complete comic character, a demented Dorothy who can write her way back to Kansas. |
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Always in this period the comedy of costume and comic production was imposed. |
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Doggerel is poetry that is irregular in rhythm and in rhyme, often deliberately for burlesque or comic effect. |
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He was an outstanding actor in both comic and tragic roles such as Wozzeck. |
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His other film credits include the independent horror film Deathwatch in Prague and Fakers, a comic crime caper. |
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A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh. |
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Comedians can be dated back to 425 BC, when Aristophanes, a comic author and playwright, wrote ancient comedic plays. |
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Jones has written many books and screenplays, including comic works and more serious writing on medieval history. |
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He is most well known for his comic characters in The Fast Show, Harry and Paul and Harry Enfield and Chums. |
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Sellafield is the central theme of Les Barker's comic poem 'Jason and the Arguments,' and is also mentioned in other Barker works. |
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The unpopular comic book was overprinted, leaving many retailers with dozens of unsaleable copies. |
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The comic playwright Aristophanes also used myths, in The Birds and The Frogs. |
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Penzance is the home of the pirates in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, The Pirates of Penzance. |
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The Nervii and their western neighbours the Menapii are the main subjects of the comic book Asterix in Belgium. |
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In recent decades, fanzines, internet and independent publishers have been fundamental to the growth of the comic in Colombia. |
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Esperanto is also found in the comic book series Saga as the language Blue, spoken by the inhabitants of Wreath. |
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Standup comic Ross Noble, a Newcastle native, has been known to make jokes about being Geordie. |
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Copies of the original comic are valued by collectors, but the reissues are worthless. |
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In 2008, the Paint Your Town Red Festival invited Liverpool comic and actor Ricky Tomlinson. |
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Noted writers in the field of comic books are Neil Gaiman, and Alan Moore, while Gaiman also produces graphic novels. |
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Marvel has also published their take on this classic by releasing a short comic series of five issues that stays true to the original storyline. |
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In the Asterix comic book series, one of the protagonists, Obelix, is a menhir maker and delivery man. |
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To his comic fury and shame, the traveller's 'master part' fails to rise to the occasion, and the girl's innocence is preserved. |
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Now she is a rowdydowdy mistress of ceremonies in the comic movie shorts shown on these pages. |
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The play's principal comic manoeuvre is to have concern switchblading into callousness. |
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Plautus, Terence and the other Roman comic writers had to write for a tough crowd. |
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He's polite and amusing, inventing comic voices to deceive friends. |
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The unjolly green giant, born from a botched gamma bomb experiment in a 1962 comic book, belongs to an elite class of superhero. |
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From this attitude he draws a singular comic and literary power. |
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The comic travelled behind the bamboo curtain for Paul Merton In China, a new fourpart series which kicks off tomorrow on five. |
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But Richard Bernstein, his partner in deception, brought comic suavity and baritonal gold to the excesses of Guglielmo. |
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In 1971, for instance, Dan O'Neill got me a part in a comic book called Air Pirates Funnies. |
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