AN EPISODE OF "The Simpsons" ends with a tragicomic moment.
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Yes, his name is eventually revealed in a tragicomic denouement.
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Venom starts to erode Eddie's sanity immediately, to disturbing, tragicomic effect.
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It's the kind of tragicomic, authoritative-sounding phrase journalists and pundits love.
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Mr. Laux recalls the confusion this sowed, and the occasionally tragicomic results.
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I will never come around to finding the mistake tragicomic or charming.
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There is some tragicomic Weeds-iness in Kidding's blend of humor and sadness.
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A few miles down from his mansion, one tragicomic sandcastle said it all.
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Turns out Meek Mill was the tragicomic hero 2017 didn't even know it needed.
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The tragicomic chapters about this episode alone are worth the price of the book.
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Another important influence was the tragicomic narrative tradition of the glass artisans near his native town.
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Bryant's tragicomic farewell tour was, in most every way, the Hollywood version of the Bobby McDermott story.
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La Melia couples the eyelash and the monochrome to make a miniature cosmos or, perhaps, a tragicomic duo.
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But 2018 is perhaps a perfect moment to celebrate the tragicomic—or finding humor in life's darkened corners.
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"Do not spread your legs" (22005), Rabih Mroue's short video, provides a tragicomic window onto Lebanon's struggles with censorship.
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This is one way it can go, and one very common tragicomic way for a hero's journey to end.
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But Churchill hated the Sutherland portrait with so much irrational passion that it all turned into a tragicomic fiasco.
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Everyone is on the make; elite publishing is a tragicomic sexual safari park, with Gertler as Jeep-driving guide.
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The algorithms also rejected The Disaster Artist, the tragicomic story of Tommy Wiseau's cult classic The Room, starring James Franco.
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It makes very little difference that the absurd, pretentiously confident Bond character at times transforms into an endearingly tragicomic buffoon.
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The Silver Lion award for Best Director went to Roy Andersson for "About Endlessness," a series of tragicomic tableau scenes.
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The songs ended up cryptic and emphatic, tragicomic and bold: taking things to the limit in taut three-minute packages.
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I know I am supposed to feel something savagely biting, but age has given a lame tragicomic ring to it all.
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Paul Beatty just became the first American ever to win the Man Booker Prize, for his tragicomic racial satire The Sellout.
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The tragicomic story of Al Jazeera America would be more amusing if it weren't for all the good journalism it produced.
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There is something tragicomic, throughout "John Aubrey: My Own Life," in watching him elude arrest, again and again, for his arrears.
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The job provides a story motherlode that Roper mines to tragicomic effect, but he's far more interested in workers than work.
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Porpoising in and out of Hazel's story is the tragicomic tale of Jasper, an individual as motorized as Hazel is defunct.
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This tragicomic novella is both a classic tale of wealth and moral ruin and a parable about capitalism and Indian society.
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"Middle England" is a compelling state-of-the-nation novel, full of light and shade, which vividly charts modern Britain's tragicomic slide.
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Let's break it down, into the four perfect, tragicomic stages of Meek Mill tumbling down some stairs like a damn human Slinky.
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Indeed Nina's producers have gone to great ends—tragicomic ends—to invoke Nina Simone's face, darkening Saldana's skin, adorning her with prosthetics.
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The tragicomic irony: We are confronted with complex challenges, but the zeitgeist does not encourage candidates or voters to respond in kind.
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This, with all due respect to Buck and those blunt vowels, is down to the tragicomic, generation-spanning history of both franchises.
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The song's stoicism is the thing: it's hot out, but he won't remove his jacket, a tragicomic interpretation of tough guy posturing.
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Instead, observers expect that the capital will stick to politics as usual for this decade: serially scandalized and often bordering on tragicomic.
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Stanya Kahn's tragicomic "It's Cool, I'm Good," about ecology, animal wisdom, and salvation through abjection, is transcendent: one look and you're hooked.
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It contrasts dourly with Jackson's tragicomic novel, which pours ridicule on the bumptious scientist/ghostbuster who leads the expedition to the spooky house.
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Signed, The Abbots Best scene That tragicomic job interview between Barrow and Sir Michael Reresby (Ronald Pickup) in the mausoleum called Dryden Park.
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After studying recently unclassified files, Mr Ferriter notes that politicians on both sides of the frontier responded to this tragicomic situation with dishonesty.
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Moreover, a pair of tragicomic scenes centered on the fragility of Al's equipment set a template for generations of self-dramatizing filmmakers. ♦
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In April and May, the police occasionally visited the premises as a series of showdowns unfolded between the warring factions, producing tragicomic scenes.
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We hope you'll join Patrick, Danielle, Natalie, Austin, and Rob on their astonishing journey through the tragicomic new Fyre Festival documentary from Netflix.
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Editorial It has been a riveting few days in the tragicomic opera known as Bridgegate, now playing at the federal courthouse in Newark.
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The cast contributes expertly tragicomic performances in a production that acts as a lucid, intimate "adieu" to a formative era for Mr. Honoré.
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Mr. Sparks's broken Tilden, whose first instinct is to shield himself with whatever's at hand (which is usually vegetables), is a lovely tragicomic creation.
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"It's really kind of almost tragicomic," said Koichi Nakano, a political scientist at Sophia University in Tokyo and frequent critic of the Japanese leader.
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These are the tenements of Dublin, circa 1920s, where O'Casey's tragicomic characters live and drink and pray and mourn in the midst of war.
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She doesn't have the sparkle and charm of Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet or Emma's Emma Woodhouse, or the tragicomic idealism of Middlemarch's Dorothea Brooke.
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What he catches so well is the desperation behind the grandeur, the tragicomic spectacle of an institution, and a people, laboring to believe in itself.
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As we learned from the most recent college scandal, the construction of a fabricated profile with illegitimate test scores and extracurriculars is tragicomic, but rare.
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Now 80, with a career stretching back to the mid-1960s, Bellocchio has long been preoccupied with the endless, tumultuous, tragicomic question of Italian identity.
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Look no further than "6 October 1942" (1943), which depicts the execution of Trondheim's theater director, Henry Gleditsch, as a Nazi fantasia of sweeping, tragicomic cruelty.
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It's fascinating to watch that balance being further adjusted with each successive play; and to see the multicast ensemble embody both sides of the tragicomic equation.
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"Dear old Vaughan Williams," he said as we passed Gerald Kelly's portrait of the composer in old age, with his immense jowls and tragicomic hearing aid.
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Gorbachev's final attempt at a comeback, a tragicomic run against Yeltsin, who was seeking re-election in 1996, yielded a humiliating 0.5 percent of the vote.
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What remained was an all-pervasive sense of irony: the sentiment that any point of view was always vulnerable to being undermined by a tragicomic reversal.
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Two of them, I should warn you, appear with Barford in stark-naked, tragicomic sex scenes that elicit the awkwardness and loneliness of human erotic congress.
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In showing how these transfixed people are destined to act as they do, "Darling" becomes a tragicomic commentary on a culture ruled by the religion of fame.
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Some might even seem familiar; Mr. Houben and Mr. Magni made ideal tragicomic vaudevillians in the Theater for a New Audience production of Beckett's "Fragments" in 2011.
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There's at least a little levity—although more tragicomic, really—in Yahoo announcing that its one-billion account leak in 2013 was actually a three-billion account leak.
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But it also has an arch edge that turns a tragicomic story about a woman's quest for self-discovery into an examination of relationship anxiety and body dysmorphia.
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At the universities, he addressed students of contemporary Arabic literature who knew of him as the author of a series of tragicomic plays, absurdist satires of Egyptian politics.
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Adapted by Steven Zaillian from "I Heard You Paint Houses", Charles Brandt's biography of Sheeran, the film is a gloriously funny, fascinating, tragicomic anthology of colourful gangland anecdotes.
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It's hard to know what to make of the novel's flirtation with drollery, since it really is just a flirtation; no one would call this a tragicomic narrative.
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Despite all the indignities visited upon Dolores — and all the crimes she'll commit in her tragicomic descent into madness — the tale is built on that tender emotional core.
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Some of this—the stern silliness of the complaint and the lingering whiff of insignificance—has to do with the fact that the tragicomic Knicks were the offended party.
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Combined with witness testimonies, their photos add an intriguing, tragicomic element to the larger discussion around the way Ukrainians perceive their own history—and what the future may hold.
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Hollow drum machine, slapped bass, and pitch-corrected synthesizer mark a tragicomic soul ballad sung in Prince's Camille voice plus artificially squeaky and artificially deep voices harmonizing in back.
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In a tragicomic spectacle in France, armed police officers surrounded a Muslim woman in a bathing outfit designed for religious modesty, as if her garb posed some dire threat.
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In the moment, though, and also in retrospect, the short and tragicomic life of the NBA's new basketball was a win for collective labor action against executive high-handedness.
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"Le Sacre du Printemps (the Rehearsal)" combined, with absurd logic and tragicomic intensity, the stories of a ballet company rehearsing with a private detective hunting for a lost baby.
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Wachs first wrote about her brother's death on Medium, and she eventually published Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love, and Loss in 2018.
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One tragicomic set piece has her fretting, at length, over something to do with a perfume called "Realism," not a quality, as it turns out, that concerns her overmuch.
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So here's a quick explanation of what's going on: Then everyone starts fighting, and Nigel Farage — the tragicomic former head of UKIP — shows up in the middle of everything.
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It seems to me tragicomic—an effort to project masculine resolve by a hypersensitive man who, in 1941, was drinking heavily, tormented by his nemesis Longman, and in failing health.
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With intricacy and humor, Van der Vliet Oloomi relays Zebra's brainy, benighted struggles as a tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bolaño and Borges.
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As our reviewer, Liesl Schillinger, wrote, the author "relays Zebra's brainy, benighted struggles as a tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bolaño and Borges."
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Director Stephen Bracket and choreographer Raja Feather Kelley make a strong duo, delivering vital plot information through tragicomic bursts of light-speed energy paired with silky smooth pop dance shuffles.
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Designed by U.S. sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe in 1955, the 27 cm (11 inches) high, 3.7 kg (8 pound) tragicomic masks have been hand-made at New Pro Foundries since the 1970s.
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The saga of how it got here, what it's doing here, and what we're doing about it is part dystopic and part tragicomic, part qualified success story and part cautionary tale.
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"Weiner is such a tragicomic figure, and such a lightning rod for news coverage, that he could insulate Clinton from some of the fallout she might have suffered otherwise," Silver wrote.
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" Committing entire passages to memory, these precocious 8-year-olds transformed his tragicomic saga of the disastrous Scott expedition into their private adventure: "He was always Titus, I was always Cherry.
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In "White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race," the Berkeley law professor Ian Haney López provides a tragicomic list of court rulings on racial identity, together with their legal rationales.
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A tragicomic ensemble piece that makes some vivid insights into sexual degradation, calculated abuse of power and justified female fury, "Blue Ridge" is in previews for an opening on Monday, Jan.
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Everything about Tim Tebow's tragicomic and inexcusably protracted career as a public figure has been about asking people to see attributes in him that are not immediately apparent in his actual play.
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Mr. Nemec's film, "The Poseurs," told the tragicomic story of two elderly residents at a clinic who spend their days bragging about their glamorous pasts but turn out to be complete nonentities.
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And the fierce attachment to the female point of view has the effect of turning the male characters' rage and violence into a tragicomic opera buffa, a stylized performance of endangered pride.
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" Reviewing "Marjorie Morningstar" for The Times, the critic Maxwell Geismar shrewdly focused on it as a drama of Jewish assimilation, "the tragicomic meeting of traditional Jewish culture and the American success myth.
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I dragged my heels somewhat on this one, having last year seen an earlier iteration of the director Scott Elliott's production Off Broadway that struggled to make the play's tragicomic components cohere.
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Relocating Dürrenmatt's tragicomic fable from middle Europe to a dying factory town in upstate New York in the mid-1950s has allowed him to take uncharacteristically crude potshots at all-American consumerism.
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It is tempting to see in Edelshtein's tragicomic day-to-day efforts on behalf of Yiddish a bitter self-parody of Ozick the practitioner-critic, Ozick the elegist of a vanished cultural past.
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"It's like a comedy show but tragic," she said, adding that she can't help but be constantly glued to the news, and they came out to the bar for a little tragicomic relief.
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Theater | New Jersey Death is not to be laughed about, usually, but "Exit the King" is a tragicomic consideration of mortality that spins a good deal of absurd mirth from a grave subject.
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It's that "Gorilla and the Bird," though sure to be marketed as a mental health memoir, is equally a tragicomic gem about family, class, race, justice and the spectacular weirdness of Wichita, Kan.
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New to me was Mr. Naharin's "Yag," a tragicomic theater game in which each dancer speaks, like a character in a play giving testimony, of family and the family members' love of dance.
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"The best jokes and routines improve with repetition; they appreciate," Evers writes in the closing story of this austere, tragicomic collection, his American debut (after a couple of books published in his native England).
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Wertmüller has a tragicomic style of directing, and even in a scene as horrendous as one involving dismemberment, she makes sure there are uncomfortably comedic gags, like Pasqualino bumping his head on a bedpost.
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This tragicomic scene, in which Ramon interrupts Greg's sad-sack monologue by screaming, cursing and hallucinating, is emblematic of what "Here and Now" seems to be: a pointedly contemporary family drama with supernatural elements.
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For Ms. Hmeidan and the Exil Ensemble, the answer is "Winterreise," or "Winter Journey," a tragicomic docudrama built around a bus tour that the actors took through Germany in the coldest weeks of January.
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There were many such tragicomic moments, as when Harold, describing the emergency room to which his collapsed hero has been taken, becomes the magician on the table, his body in spasms from defibrillation shocks.
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Cabaret's darkly tragicomic emcee reflected the depravity of Nazi Germany, while the Joker gleefully celebrated the anarchy of Gotham while never letting us forget that the sources of that anarchy were all too human.
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Unfortunately, the trend now seems to be toward feature and connectivity bloat, as exhibited by Samsung's much less magical Gear S3, Huawei's universally disappointing Watch 2, and LG's tragicomic enormity known as the Watch Sport.
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Everyone's favorite characters, the Sand Snakes, are back and in trouble again, as they build an illicit empire of "dragon grass" in a tragicomic descendent of Breaking Bad and beloved stoner fantasies like Your Highness.
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"Anderson has always been attuned to the beauty of magical idylls, to the violence of losing them, and (most of all) to the fumblingly tragicomic process of building something better from the rubble," he wrote.
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His confession is fraught with irony and his history is tragicomic; unlike the refugees of "The Refugees," he regards himself with the distance of self-loathing, for he has participated in assassinations while following orders.
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Both of those races remain tragicomic games of musical chairs, with multiple teams gimpily circling some rickety folding chairs at a strikingly low rate of speed while John Fogerty's "Centerfield" plays on a shitty boombox.
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These quiet rebels are all over his anthology, from "An Eccentric" by Marcellus Emants, convinced that "we are doomed to live in absurdity", to J.M.A. Biesheuvel's tragicomic loser, plagued by "unspecified fears that devour the soul".
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Yorgos Lanthimos, perhaps best known for his tragicomic movie The Lobster, entered the competition with The Favourite, while Margot Robbie and Saoirse Ronan are back up to bat for their roles in Mary Queen of Scots.
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As the film gallops along at a pace that squeezes most of the salient plot details into a scant 108 minutes, no time is allowed for the somber reflections that give the novel a tragicomic dimension.
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The festival's opening film, Alexander Payne's "Downsizing," received raves from Variety and The Hollywood Reporter for its tragicomic story starring Matt Damon as a man who undergoes a popular shrinking process in order to cut costs.
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Critic's Pick "The Shadow of a Gunman," Sean O'Casey's tragicomic 1923 play about gun violence, patriotism and empty rhetoric, has returned to the Irish Repertory Theater, the first production in a season devoted to his work.
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He is a part of the sprawling, ambitious, tragicomic broader story of The Process, which is the name given to the full-spectrum teardown and recently begun rebuilding of the Philadelphia 76ers over the last few years.
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Anthony Kiedis writes lyrics with rhythmic cadence first and foremost, which means there will always be bursts of babble — "Send it off through Delaware just/Make it fair for the legionnaires" — alongside his cosmic or tragicomic musings.
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"Lorena," Peele told me, fits with his larger mission to make films that give voices to marginalized people, but it's impossible not to acknowledge that the story has the dark, tragicomic underpinnings of a Coen brothers' movie.
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Mr. Frayn reconceived it as an elegant sex farce, under the title "Wild Honey" (seen briefly on Broadway in the mid-1980s), while Mr. Hare's adaptation hewed closer to the more brooding, tragicomic template usually associated with Chekhov.
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The movement was inspired by the tomb scene from Romeo and Juliet — one of many hidden layers of tragicomic context in a film that unerringly pursues its own logical end and then goes further, in a leap of faith.
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Just a few years later, Mr. Forman's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" — an adaptation of Ken Kesey's tragicomic novel of revolt and repression in a mental institution — won five Oscars, including those for best director and best picture.
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He's already heard his work compared to nearly every dystopian movie about memory—from the campy Total Recall and the shadowy neo-noir of Minority Report to the tragicomic heart-string-pulling of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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Decades after its first opening, the musical has gained a reputation for being sweet enough to cause a toothache, especially for younger audiences who have grown up accustomed to visceral, tragicomic works like Spring Awakening and Next to Normal.
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Season 2 bloomed like a rose from the tragicomic soil of Season 1's focus on grief, anger, and self-hatred, and showed Fleabag's bravery in pursuing that which she spent most of the first season avoiding — real love.
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The MacArthur Genius's best-selling 22018 graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic — titled after the Bechdel family's nickname for their funeral business — explores the author's relationship with her closeted gay father, his unexpected death, and her own coming out.
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The rivals, playing out their tragicomic duel on the grandest electoral stage, are like two Shakespearean protagonists falling prey to hubris, the excessive pride that can make a politician believe the rules that govern normal mortals do not apply to them.
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If some of these scenarios sound familiar, it's not necessarily because they're ripped from the headlines (though in some cases, it's pretty close); it's because Hollywood has long a long history of skewering the American political system for tragicomic gain.
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" And so it wasn't a stretch to see why, after the tragicomic reveal that Lena Dunham's character had been knocked up by her surf instructor back in episode 1, my roommate smiled and said, "Hannah Horvath is your pregnancy role model!
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The Outer Worlds is full of a lot of experiences like this, where the absolute bleak horror of a space empire run by lousy corporations melds with an intergalactic setting to produce moments that are stunning in their tragicomic brutality.
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But the younger author does make at least one wry, essential and tragicomic homage to the ringing telephone that begins "Johnny": When Mary travels to see their daughter, she accidentally leaves her cellphone charging in Eden's room, just behind his head.
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World Premiere Free and Easy / Hong Kong (Director: Jun Geng, Screenwriters: Jun Geng, Yuhua Feng, Bing Liu) — When a traveling soap salesman arrives in a desolate Chinese town, a crime occurs, and sets the strange residents against each other with tragicomic results.
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In much the same way, Mr. Bartlett responds to Chekhov even as he refashions him, any temporal divide bridged by one's awareness that humankind viewed in its tragicomic amplitude is as rare and wondrous in today's theater as it was a century ago.
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The cartoonist Alison Bechdel, whose graphic memoir "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic" (2006) was adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical in 553, bought the first issue of Gay Comix at the Oscar Wilde Bookshop in Greenwich Village soon after moving to Manhattan.
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Mr. Papaioannou and Mr. Oyen have acquitted themselves with honor in an impossible task: retaining their own identities while creating pieces that satisfy audiences who love Wuppertal's distinctive performers and Bausch's episodic, tragicomic evocations of the absurdities and obsessions of daily life.
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"Viewed through the lens of the intelligentsia and the media elite, D'Souza has suffered a tragicomic fall from grace, undone by some combination of conspiratorial thinking, pseudo-academic posturing, and hubris," Simon van Zuylen-Wood wrote in a 2013 profile for National Journal.
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And when Washington explores everything, he has to explore a world in turmoil—Greg Tate called Washington "the jazz voice of Black Lives Matter" not because of his hip-hop crossovers, but because of his ability to draw the tragicomic past into the urgent present.
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There would be something poignant if it was anyone else forced to bluff and wheeze through this sort of Fudged Book Report on the radio, but because it's Francesa, declaiming as ever from within the bulletproof popemobile of his tragicomic ego, it's pure delight.
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Instead, we were meeting to discuss his latest gig, a world away from the tragicomic tale of two dying teenagers: The actor is the latest Global Ambassador for Ralph Lauren Polo Red's fragrance franchise, and the new face of the brand's upcoming launch, Red Rush.
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And as the characters of "Girls" move throughout the play and prove more interested in acting out their own minute psychodramas than bearing witness to the crime, Ms. Genovese's tragedy forms the backdrop for a tragicomic tour through the conflicted state of female empowerment.
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" But he's also had opportunities to play more complex, layered roles, like Lost Causer lawman Chris Mannix as in Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight," the ambitious bank-robbing white supremacist Boyd Crowder on "Justified" and as tragicomic trans prostitute Venus Van Damme in "Sons of Anarchy.
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But after more research on the colorful Pierrepoint and his assistant, as well as on the questionable executions in the '50s and early '60s that led to abolition, he struck upon a way to tell a tragicomic thriller that flicked at his feelings about capital punishment.
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Causally, it is one long tragicomic flap of the butterfly effect—a thousand cattle emit gales of methane farts in Kansas while awaiting their date with the inside of a soggy Taco Bell shell, and then thousands of miles away a mammoth iceberg calves off the arctic ice shelf.
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After concluding a legislative session that started as contentious and ended with allegations of death threats made on the House floor, Texans -- who are already accustomed to expecting little more from their legislators than decent entertainment -- are left wondering if our dope opera has become more than just tragicomic.
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Then again, if his primary aim was to represent, in all its tragicomic contradictions, the devolution of a country that could conceivably elect Donald J. Trump as its next president, perhaps chaotic, surrealist excess was the only choice to make in this supersize and audacious novel of American misadventure.
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A tragicomic handful of diehard Ross Geller fans have very little capacity to disrupt my life, but we do need to talk about them, because even when you're just venting about television, facing a barrage of angry men is the cost of being A Woman on the Internet with an Opinion.
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But in "New People," her captivating and incisive fifth book, Danzy Senna has crafted a tragicomic novel that powerfully conjures the sense of optimism once associated with future racial transcendence, even as it grounds that idealism in a present that bears more than just a family resemblance to the racialized past.
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As powerful as that story is, though, the real appeal of his memoir lies in "the sheer, sharp pleasure of his prose," as Marya Hornbacher writes in her review, and in the book's generous range: "a tragicomic gem about family, class, race, justice and the spectacular weirdness of Wichita, Kan."
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Acronym—the well-capitalized, well-connected, deliberately opaque "venture-style" outfit headlined by veteran Democratic campaign types that built the busted app that helped turn the Iowa caucuses into a tragicomic shitshow—is precisely the sort of failure that would result from a political establishment disappearing up its own metaphorical ass.
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Célestin makes a fast new road the central promise of his political campaign, and Berlinski makes it a central tragicomic theme of his novel: something we take for granted can be frustratingly difficult to achieve in a very poor country like Haiti; its power to transform impoverished lives is correspondingly greater.
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It is a big ol' stupid floppy bag full of exposed nerves, a tragicomic design flaw that doubles as a funhouse full of hilarious yuks just sitting and waiting for a foot, or, in this case, a shinbone, to unlock their hilarious pleasures for all the world to point and laugh.
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The fort's soggy ruins will soon become a field of sunflowers; the flowers will be burned down with crème brûlée torches; their charred remains will transform into a tropical archipelago; and on and on, forming a tragicomic two-step in which an antic beauty keeps finding ways to rise from our equally antic ashes.
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In those early days of sobriety, when I first read Charles Jackson's 1944 best seller "The Lost Weekend," a tragicomic account of a single extended bender, I found myself torn between rooting for its antihero, an aspiring writer named Don Birnam, to get sober and wanting him to find a way to keep drinking.
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The fukú of Junot Díaz's novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" — a curse brought to the New World by Columbus — gave new dimension to the deep interconnectedness of American histories, weaving a rich tangle of science fiction, Caribbean politics and family lore around the tragicomic life of a Dominican nerd in New Jersey.
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The examples slid back and forth on a scale of tragedy to tragicomic: pilots who slammed their planes into the ground after misreading a dial; pilots who fell from the sky never knowing which direction was up; the pilots of B-17s who came in for smooth landings and yet somehow never deployed their landing gear.
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For a misplaced puzzle piece like Carmelo Anthony—once revered as the game's best scorer, but long steeped in tragicomic New York Knicks thwartedness—dominance abroad is an accomplishment that may be better remembered than anything done in the NBA; Anthony is now lacing up for his fourth straight Olympic jaunt with Team USA, an unprecedented figure.
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In this crystalline exhibition, nearly every gallery exhales its own delicious breath, offering up concentrated views of Penn's innovative still-life and fashion work for Vogue; his portraits of cultural luminaries and tradesmen, as well as of indigenous Peruvians; his nearly abstract close-ups of voluptuous nudes; and his colossal cigarette butts, with their tragicomic evocations of Roman columns, tombstones and even corpses.
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Olivia Colman, who is fast approaching "National Treasure" status in Britain, was a popular choice for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical for her tragicomic characterisation of Queen Anne in "The Favourite", and no one could begrudge Glenn Close's win in the Drama category for "The Wife": the two women are now neck-and-neck to win the Best Actress statuette at the Oscars.
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Palmer's title poem responds without cheer: The laughter of the Sphinxcaused my eyes to bleed The blood from my eyesflowed onto that ancient map of sandRidiculous as I am often have I been drawnto such lands The poems in this coruscating two-part collection wander there like tragicomic masks, raging at the idiocies of the world or probing how meaning is made when answers escape us.
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It begins as a tragicomic metaphysical fantasy: a country girl in pigtails (Amodeo) dies in a freak accident and is reborn as a baby in a comfortably suburban family in Chappaqua, New York, which leads to an astonishing dissolve from a crying infant on the carpet to a crying woman in her bed—Lisa (Amodeo), who is orphaned and unemployed and lives with her aunt in a grungy East Village apartment.
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Museums & Galleries In this crystalline exhibition, closing on July 30, nearly every gallery exhales its own delicious breath, offering up concentrated views of Penn's innovative still-life and fashion work for Vogue; his portraits of cultural luminaries and tradesmen, as well as of indigenous Peruvians; his nearly abstract close-ups of voluptuous nudes; and his colossal cigarette butts, with their tragicomic evocations of Roman columns, tombstones and even corpses.
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In this crystalline exhibition, nearly every gallery exhales its own delicious breath, offering up concentrated views of Penn's innovative still-life and fashion work for Vogue, including "Girl Drinking (Mary Jane Russell), New York, 1949" (above, a gelatin silver print from 2000); his portraits of cultural luminaries and tradesmen, as well as of indigenous Peruvians; his nearly abstract close-ups of voluptuous nudes; and his colossal cigarette butts, with their tragicomic evocations of Roman columns, tombstones and even corpses.
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