“ Three Screen Comedies ” also included a reprint of “ Freundschaft ,” Raphaelson ’ s wry and affectionate reflection on his working relationship with Lubitsch that had originally appeared in The New Yorker in 1982.

Terry Deary's mischievous mix of humour, sadistic statistics and corny jokes, padded out by Martin Brown's wry comic cartoons, has proved irresistible bedtime reading for millions since the first, Terrible Tudors, was published.

Retro-futurism of the first type is inevitably influenced by the scientific, technological, and social awareness of the present, and modern retro-futuristic creations are never simply copies of their pre-1960 inspirations ; rather, they are given a new ( often wry or ironic ) twist by being seen from a modern perspective.

The " first chapter summons up the days when the world was first settled, in 874 AD — for that is the year when the Norsemen arrived in Iceland, and one of the book's wry conceits is that no other world but Iceland exists.

Chadwick's first work for the theatre was The Peer and the Pauper, an imitation of Gilbert and Sullivan operas which were then popular in the U. S. His " burlesque opera " Tabasco was an outlet for his own wry wit, featuring a humorous plot, comically-named characters, and popular-style music.

Eleven tracks recorded at Salad Days became the first record to showcase Piebald's signature sound and wry jokes.

During his first book tour across Canada for Public Enemy Number One for McClelland & Stewart ( published in the United States as The Alvin Karpis Story ), Karpis, looking more like an accountant than a gangster, still showed a wry sense of humor.

The poem was popular in Victorian England and, when the first Australian cricket team to tour England defeated a strong MCC team, including W G Grace, at Lord's on 27 May 1878, the satirical magazine Punch celebrated by publishing a parody of the poem including a wry commentary on Grace's contribution:

Two wry forms of consolation for Robins in a frustrating season came during the first half of the campaign.

Boston fans sometimes liked to wring some wry satisfaction out of the fact that most of the great 1923-27 crew were graduates of the Red Sox -- sold to millionaires Huston and Ruppert by a man who could not deny them their most trifling desire.

Taken at a sprightly pace, with a bright, slowly building big band arrangement and a joyous saxophone solo by Phil Woods, it would seem at cross purposes with the material, but Tormé gives a suitably wry reading which highlights the absurdity happening around him.

The satirical magazine Punch responded to it by publishing a parody of Byron's poem The Destruction of Sennacherib including a wry commentary on Grace's contribution:

Ironically, the song itself was a wry comment on the music-video phenomenon, sung from the point of view of an appliance deliveryman both drawn to and repelled by the outlandish images and personalities that appeared on MTV.

Probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of From Hell ( written by Alan Moore ), Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants, and Bacchus ( aka Deadface ), a wry adventure series about the few Greek gods who have survived to the present day.

Peter Riddell of the Times suggested that A View From the Foothills deserved to become " the central text for understanding the Blair years ", while Decline & Fall, in which Mullin ( by then a backbencher again ) expressed wry consternation at the way the government operated under Blair's successor Gordon Brown, were commended for their independence of outlook, revealing, as Jenni Russell put it in the Sunday Times, Mullin's " readiness to like people who don't echo his politics ".

Ace's broadcasting career happened by accident, after one night of bridge and a following night of absenteeism, by the show that followed his wry movie reviews on a Kansas City radio station.

The show was ripened by Ace's wry style, adapted to Bankhead's diva-blunt style and the differing ways of the various guests who joined in the show.

Nat Tate also appears in Any Human Heart, also by Boyd, with a wry footnote to the 1998 book.

Iyall was observed by Mother Jones to be among a new group of female fronted rock bands that displayed a " tough, wry, street-wise, cynical " attitude and sought to redefine the role of women in rock music.

In this story and in many others penned by Furman, Starscream often came across as wry and sarcastic.

Shortly afterwards, concerned that the Dutch might make the shoreline before he could bring them to battle despite his wry insistence that " I am determined to fight the ships on land if I cannot by sea ", Duncan ordered his fleet to turn southwards and advance on the enemy and " bear up and sail large ".

The Bermudan ballad is characterized by " wry, self-deprecating humor ", often improvised, and concerned with the rapid change of Bermudan culture.

In late 1982, having signed a new contract with the RCA Records label, The Reels scored an unexpected hit with a wry, languid cover of the Burt Bacharach-Hal David song, originally recorded by Herb Alpert, " This Guy's In Love With You ", which reached No. 7.

The song " Big Riff and Mando " reflects life on the road for the relentlessly touring musicians, giving a wry account of the theft of Barre's prized mandolin by a stage-struck fan.

Lileks displays creative, irreverent and politically incorrect ( by today's standards ) advertisements, photographs, pamphlets, comic strips, matchbooks, currency, postcards, cheesecake drawings, and architecture, usually accompanied by wry analysis and commentary.

Intangibly-constructed, nearly-omnipresent entity of immense influence and wry humor, called the Accounting Office in later books, whose purpose is largely ( though not exclusively ) to monitor the use of magic by Magickians of the Collegiate, and thus to determine whether or not they have the right to accomplish certain magical feats.

His typical sculpture depicts everyday encounters defined by wry humor, irony, and sober reflection.

The lyrics to a talking blues are characterized by dry, rural humour, with the spoken codetta often adding a wry commentary on the subject of the verse, like Bob Dylan's TALKIN BEAR MOUNTAIN PICNIC MASSACRE BLUES.

In the booklet contained in the 2007 box set, the album title is credited to " George being George "; apparently Harrison was making a wry reference to the appearance of a bootleg that served as a sort of " Volume 2 ".

In a story conference, when her name was suggested to him for the part of a girl threatened with rape, Thalberg shook his head and, with a wry smile, said, " She looks too well able to take care of herself.

Her eyes were grey, and her mouth was small ; her smile allowed her to demonstrate her wry humour, her wit, and her graciousness.

In Paste Magazine No. 22 June / July 2006-a Special Collector's Issue featuring the 100 Best Living Songwriters-Mark Heard was remembered as well under the heading Wish You Were Here: " Mark Heard's lyrics are weighted with such a wry longing that they'll forever reflect a fresh turbulence.

His " Never Comes The Day " was issued as a UK single, while Thomas ' wry observations of life in " Dear Diary " and " Lazy Day " were striking features.

" As a wry and macabre joke on Tunstall's great affection for horses, the dead bay's head was then pillowed on his hat ", writes Frederick Nolan, Tunstall's biographer.

It was, and continues to be, used to treat diseases of muscle spasticity such as strabismus, blepharospasm ( eyelid spasm ), and torticollis ( wry neck ).

He was not a sophisticated musician or singer, but he had a wry and clever way with words: " Mama, move your false teeth, papa wanna scratch your gums.

) The phrase, " You like me ", was originally from her wry, understated, famous reply in the film Norma Rae, but many people totally missed the subtle connection in her acceptance speech with that point in the film.

" Most often described as " wry ," Brinkley once suggested on the air that the best way to resolve the controversy over whether to change the name of Boulder Dam to " Hoover Dam " was to have former president Herbert Hoover change his name to " Herbert Boulder ".

The judge fined him the small sum of £ 18. 60, which commentators theorized was a wry allusion to the year of the statute used to convict him.

Keith Castellain Douglas ( 24 January 1920 – 9 June 1944 ) was an English poet noted for his war poetry during World War II and his wry memoir of the Western Desert Campaign, Alamein to Zem Zem.

As his seminar " I Dig Trees " indicated, Dr. Bracewell was known for having a tremendously keen, intelligent sense of wry, science-infused humor.

His Picture in the Papers ( 1916 ) was noted for its wry style of discursive and witty subtitles: " My most popular subtitle introduced the name of a new character.

The album was full of the band's wry, fast-paced brand of ska-punk anthems, producing such fan favorites as " Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts ," " Jen Doesn't Like Me Anymore ," and " Automatic.

Indeed, it was this approach that elicited the wry adage that " a good decision is getting on a plane at an airport where Kate Adie is getting off ".

Shortly afterward, the wry and bossy household maid was given the name Hazel, along with employment at the Baxter household.