He does deep mystical talk and tragic-Indian talk and then makes deadpan remarks.
I recall Koons discussing his paintings years later at Columbia University over a slide show of Ilona Staller's parted bottom, when he silenced a hall full of snickering students by his deadpan remarks on the generosity of his then, ex-wife's rear-end.
I took a seat in Rosa's living room with ten older Dominican ladies, a 79-year-old Alzheimer's patient named Isabelle, and a put-out-looking guy named Victor who kept dropping these terse deadpan remarks that made all the women crack up.
"I gotta cage my eyeballs," Mr. Armstrong remarked, deadpan, as he and Scott, their vision blurred, struggled to cut short their flight.
A little of the unreadably deadpan in that remark - and something of its flourish - is detectable in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Jarmusch's arresting new serio-comedy about a professional killer, Ghost Dog Forest Whitakerr), who lives alone in a rickety loft, and communicates with his single employer, a wheezing Mafia hood, by means of the carrier pigeons he keeps.
In the song's hook, she sing-talks in a "deadpan" delivery while remarking that "If you wanna get with me, there's some things you gotta know / I like my beats fast and my bass down low".
Freud, who virtually invented the art of taking everything personally, loved a good joke as much as anyone and would no doubt have appreciated the deadpan wit of this remark -- and might even have chuckled at Phillips's claim that the founding father of psychoanalysis was himself "resistant to therapy".
It's at this point that Arkin gazes at the chaos exploding around him, and remarks, in his deadpan way, "Wow.
He remarked, in perfect deadpan: "Of course, people get a little upset at us if we happen to complete the installation and a week later something perchance happens to fall out of the sky, so to speak". * An interview with the men who constructed the news set.
Mr. Bush's aides chose to interpret the ambiguous remark as an example of the senator's sometimes deadpan humor, and it did not diminish their conviction, shared by many Republican operatives, that the Texas governor had accomplished something important today.
Ms. Wiest's flair for deadpan line readings occasionally wrings some laughs from the material, as when she remarks of a friend, "I had advised her against marrying — having tried it, I'd acquired a disgust for matrimony".
