Garfunkel and Oates are the actresses Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci Shelleyy on "Raising Hope"), and this series consists of absurdist sketches, sweet-faced but dirty, on subjects like the misogyny of the comedy business and the awfulness of pregnant women.
It's classic modernist English impressionism: lowly subject; dirty; urban; everyday".
One of the many enjoyable revelations in last week's webchat with Kazuo Ishiguro was his "dirty secret" that his subject matter doesn't change much from book to book.
But "Restoration" isn't the dream marriage of creator and subject that "Dirty Blonde" was.
For decades, wherever she went, Jane Russell was the subject of dirty jokes.
'It Is Embarrassing' Many people -- Mr. Forrester included -- think that New Jersey gets a bad rap where the subject of dirty politics is concerned, although he does concede that there have been many examples of corruption "at the municipal level".
At this year's festival, where "The Barbarian Invasions" will be shown tonight and tomorrow, there will still be a lot of dirty talk, but the subject this time is the dwindling of the life force and the perverse habit of history to keep moving wherever it chooses in spite of the attempts by small bands of intellectuals to influence its direction.
In far too many families, money is a dirty word, a taboo subject, what I call the M word.
Instead, the first attempt can be more of a 'quick and dirty' solution that is subject to further improvement over the course of evolution.
That figure is determined both by statistical noise and by the experimental disorder that's anticipated to come from attrition (your subjects disappear), contagion (your treatment subjects somehow mingle with your control subjects), and other kinds of slippage (some of your treatment subjects hear dirty jokes in their agitprop, and some do not).
