Sentences with phrase «tragedy as farce»

The 1993 Whitney Biennial was lauded in many reviews of last year's edition and, in that weird reprise of tragedy as farce, ACT UP's saga is to become a mini-series on US network television, while many Republicans now support gay marriage.

Not exact matches

In My Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family By John Sedgwick HarperCollins, 400 pages, $ 25.95 Dig deeply into any family history and you're bound to unearth a mosaic of tragedies and farces, but few families have given rise to as many prominent figures as the Sedgwick clan has, few have created such archival treasures, and few can trace their American lineage back to 1635.

The first time as tragedy and the second time as farce.

History, as Marx taught us, likes to repeat itself: the first time in the form of a tragedy; the second, a farce.

He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.»

But many party members must be thinking of his observation that everything in history happens twice — the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

As political theatre goes, it was bizarre, like an amateur production of a Jacobean melodrama: bodies piling up all over the stage; actors stumbling over the corpses and missing their cues; tragedy turning to farce.

Depending on your tastes, that verdict might either bring to mind Marx's adage about history being repeated first as tragedy then farce, or the immortal words of Jay Gatsby: «Can't repeat the past?

The locations help redefine Ibsen's action; the film finds its own unique form as a sardonic, farce - streaked tragedy about a man who's not at home in his own estate.

Billy Wilder, for example, was originally dismissed by Sarris as a director without a personal style, and, indeed, Wilder tackled an astonishing range of material, from romantic comedies to film noir («Double Indemnity»), Hollywood tragedy («Sunset Boulevard»), journalistic expose («Ace in the Hole») and classic farce («Some Like It Hot»).

Screen farce, like screen pornography, may involve culturally embarrassing examinations of audience metabolism and endurance, examinations which may explain why modern audiences are seldom moved as emotionally as they think guiltily they ought to be by the five - act tragedies of Shakespeare.

If you re-read the final scenes between Winston Smith and Julia from Nineteen Eighty - Four and then watch this scene, you can have your own version of Marx's dictum about history as tragedy, then farce.

Marx's observation that history tends to repeat itself «the first time as tragedy, the second as farce» may help to account for the evolution from JFK to Natural Born Killers.

Conlon captures the herky - jerky nature of a policeman's daily routine as it swings between farce and tragedy, all the while detailing the way cops talk, joke, and stress.

And when the storm breaks, it is not only God who is on the rocks as the summer hurtles towards drama, tragedy, and a touch of farce.

The scope of his genius included portraiture, landscape painting, mythological painting, realistic stories, symbolical representations, tragedy, comedy, satire, farce, men, gods, devils, witches, the seen and the unseen and as was the case with Shakespeare's extravagant genius - an occasional excursion into the obscene.

The Beggar's Pantomime Artforum International; July 1, 2007; Gilligan, Melanie; 700 + words MELANIE GILLIGAN ON PERFORMANCE AND ITS APPROPRIATIONS FEW APHORISMS ARE MORE FAMOUS than the redoubtable «History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce» - an observation typically attributed to Karl Marx.