He specialized in satiric tableaus and sharp social commentary directed at big business, political corruption, militarism and racism, with something left over for the comic spectacle of the human race on parade.
The whole affair ended with the comic spectacle of the Master descending by helicopter to the privacy of a country rendezvous, where he was interviewed for Granada Television by a panel consisting of the "Times" editor, a Catholic priest, a former Home Secretary, & the Bishop of Woolwich.
You see this from the start, when the chilling prologue, with its screams, factory whistles and echoes of the Dies Irae gives way to the comic spectacle of Mrs Lovett making her disgusting pies, filled with the vermin that Sweeney sees as characteristic of London.
But the essence of the brothers' comedy was never their political humor (which caused the show's abrupt cancellation in 1969) but the comic spectacle of two brothers, joined at the hip, forever getting on each other's nerves and enjoying the friction.
Overlooking the moral squalor, what a splendid comic spectacle.
WHAT is sure is that Mr. Sergeant was no novice in making a comic spectacle of himself.
We must have presented a comic spectacle -- an elderly man struggling to remove the garments from an old lady, still with white skin and incongruously fair hair...
Still, Mr. Poppleton, a longtime booking agent for national tours of Broadway and Off Broadway productions, managed to assemble ads highlighting quotes like "flamboyant comic spectacle" (Associated Press) and "instant gold" (Logo TV).
I remember feeling sorry for the victims, and at the same time sorry for everybody who wasn't there to enjoy the free comic spectacle of all those helpless bumper cars and spectacular Buster Keaton pratfalls.
The trial of Pussy Riot, which opened in Moscow, on July 30th, and is expected to conclude with a verdict on Wednesday, has been an outrageous, astonishing, biased, exhausting, ridiculous, and at times comic spectacle.
