The grotesque comedy features a social climber who buys dead serfs from the nobles who owned them.
And, as we said, the caller in Ohio was complaining about the grotesque pizza that they sometimes have there.
He also played the role of a chef in the BBC's adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, in 2000 as the grotesque Swelter.
Such forgetfulness can be partly blamed on a dominant national press that tends to report the grotesque exceptions not the blander rule.
Solondz is a minor master of black comedy the flattened emotional responses, the grotesque non sequiturs, the perverse desires lurking under a bland surface.
Filming with an unflinching biomorphic intimacy, as if looking at the body, inside and out, through a microscope, Carruth quickly leapfrogs over the grotesque and into the transcendent.
So there we are, the grotesque grabbing on to beauty, beauty embraced by the grotesque, the light surrounded by the shadow, our lives rounded by a little sleep.
What made this scandal special was the grotesque detail.
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To a fresh observer, it was the very opposite of what you might expect a Nigerian election to be - an escape from the grotesque abuses of ballot stuffing and vote rigging of the past.
For most of Kim's 15-year reign, since he took over from his Stalin-installed father, Kim Il Sung, Washington has tacitly accepted the grotesque nature of the North Korean regime while trying to persuade Kim to disarm.
Dahl's books are full of the grotesque, from Mrs Twit substituting worms for her husband's spaghetti, to child-eating giants in the BFG, and the hero of Danny the Champion of the World drugging pheasants so that they're easier to poach.
Trog, aka Wally Fawkes, has her as a jolly knockabout figure with tombstone teeth pulling pints in the bar of the TV soap "EastEnders, " but the angry brigade, Martin Rowson and Steve Bell of the Guardian and Dave Brown of the Independent, emphasize the grotesque.
Staring at the photos of male stars caught with pot bellies, or female stars without makeup, in bikinis when they should be in a one-piece, with baby weight gains, experiencing the inevitable ravages aging, or the grotesque effects of having been fully Botoxed, I felt I would be supporting tabloid-ism in its basest form.
Shackled and crammed into the ships' holds in the most grotesque and insanitary conditions, the slaves would then have to endure the so-called "Middle Passage" across the Atlantic between Africa and the Americas, a journey that could last anything from five weeks to three months.
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He's often attacked in the most grotesque and vicious ways and he's also a voice in the wilderness.
And a genuine safe passage would remedy the current grotesque situation in which 950, 000 of Gaza's 1m Palestinians cannot travel to the West Bank for want of an Israeli security permit.
He channel-hops through art history, picking out the most grotesque moments.
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Aping the increasingly grotesque genre of reality television shows, local celebrities and washed-out headline-starved failed former security brass got together with Yediot Aharonot and put on a reality TV stunt for the public to mark the anniversary.
The consequences can be grotesque: in the city of Dzerzhinsk, in Russia, decades of slapdash handling of chemical waste has reduced male life expectancy to just 42 years.
The attempt is grotesque and ethos of meritocracy do not even afford us the appropriate means of redress.
The point of this grotesque catalogue was to assert that the Eighth Amendment prohibited methods of execution that were also forms of torture nothing more.
The Venezuelan government called the photo "grotesque", and said it would take legal action against El Pais.
Like Idi Amin and Emperor Bokassa, Gadhafi will soon join the pantheon of grotesque dictators who leave their countries in ruins.
Robert Whelan, director of the pressure group Family and Youth Concern, said it was "grotesque" that the Climbie case was being used to "try to criminalise parents".
Although "apartheid" is now a familiar term in much of the world, a few brief details of its history seem necessary to explain its grotesque impact on the life of Ruth Khumalo as well as on her children and their children, including the boy.
Were the superb work the Guardian did to expose phone hacking to result in state supervised regulation of newspapers, the injustice would be grotesque.
Having burnt out pretty badly on first-person-shooters, the fun and occasionally grotesque game has done a good job at keeping my fleeting attention in check.
The disproportion between the two subjects is grotesque, almost a joke.
Blame for this mess lies chiefly with the central bank, which has shown a grotesque inability to deal with even the most flagrant examples of asset-stripping, misreporting and outright fraud.
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