But if Coward's pansexual bedroom farce was an exercise in cynical wit, "3" aims to show the utopian logic of an unconventional romantic arrangement.
For example, of his role as a cynical father in the widely panned "Oscar," a 1991 gangster farce and one of his few attempts at pure comedy, Stallone said, "I tried to make him seem likable.
But it's past time that Palestinian failings cease to serve as an excuse for Israel's remorseless, cynical scattering of the Palestinian people into enclaves that make a farce of statehood.
In "George Condo: Mental States," at the New Museum, the painter assimilates the styles of masters from Velázquez to Picasso, but his work is no cynical art-historical critique — his themes are violence and sex, tragedy and farce.
In the great adventure that was 20th-century abstraction, the arrival of these coolly planned and professionally executed paintings near the century's end was a cynical epilogue that replaced the tragic visions of a Rothkowith self-mocking sitcom farce.
He has with no apparent effort got into the mind of an articulate, wise, but despairing and cynical drunken old hack, and this long, languorous and winding novel has registers of tragedy, farce, laugh-out-loud humour and great grace.
D1 OBITUARIES B9 George Axelrod A writer whose sexually frank farces and witty satires of the 1950's and 60's heralded the more hedonistic and cynical pop-culture sensibility of later decades, he was 81.
"Warden can play intense melodrama, yet he plays farce with infallible timing," said Danny Arnold, who told TV Guide that he wrote the part of the gruff and cynical major on "Wackiest" with Warden in mind.
