There are other figures who acquire the relentlessness of the leitmotif — striking when they first appear, dangerously close to tedious as you realize that, like eager party guests, they are never going to leave, yet somehow growing funny again through that undaunted capacity for repetition.
There are other figures who acquire the relentlessness of the leitmotif striking when they first appear, dangerously close to tedious as you realize that, like eager party guests, they are never going to leave, yet somehow growing funny again through that undaunted capacity for repetition.
It is also very funny, growing funnier with each fresh misery, mishap and atrocity.
Benjamin keeps things bubbling nicely, with matters growing funnier rather than the opposite.
All you Jews and socially-conscious citizens out there can just grow a funny bone and stop getting so bloody offended, teenagers just find it funny!
It took a long time to reach the marveling stage, but here I have stayed, watching my tiny twins grow into funny, fascinating individuals.
Here McCall discusses his writing and his art, and growing up funny.
Like a lot of haircut jokes; "so just a little off the top?" or "if this grows in funny, bring him back and I'll trim it up again".
The palm trees really do grow at those funny angles.
"Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" (1936), happily baroque in its show-within-a-show meta-theatricality and happily jazzy in dance style, grows only funnier with familiarity.
