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The second flourish on Thompson guignol is that the narrator appears to be narrating the story from hell, his descent to which occupies the novel's final scene.
Genre Fiction 2010
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As for the HBO pair, the network's big publicity push for the show's second-season premiere is likely to remind voters of how amusingly grand guignol Paquin was in Blood.
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A victim of possession, played with grand-guignol gusto by Marta Gastini, responds to Father Lucas's ministrations with elaborate writhings and squirmings; a male victim wouldn't have given the genre its requisite sexual charge.
Hopkins Can't Right 'Rite' Joe Morgenstern 2011
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He's going to be Chris Wallace for the day, as they show discusses the upcoming midterm election slaughter-guignol that the GOP is going to hand to the Democrats and the Dems plan to defend themselves, with words.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2010
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He's going to be Chris Wallace for the day, as they show discusses the upcoming midterm election slaughter-guignol that the GOP is going to hand to the Democrats and the Dems plan to defend themselves, with words.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2010
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He's going to be Chris Wallace for the day, as they show discusses the upcoming midterm election slaughter-guignol that the GOP is going to hand to the Democrats and the Dems plan to defend themselves, with words.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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He's going to be Chris Wallace for the day, as they show discusses the upcoming midterm election slaughter-guignol that the GOP is going to hand to the Democrats and the Dems plan to defend themselves, with words.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2010
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He's going to be Chris Wallace for the day, as they show discusses the upcoming midterm election slaughter-guignol that the GOP is going to hand to the Democrats and the Dems plan to defend themselves, with words.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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He's going to be Chris Wallace for the day, as they show discusses the upcoming midterm election slaughter-guignol that the GOP is going to hand to the Democrats and the Dems plan to defend themselves, with words.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2010
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Conveying the idea, as McNally does, that opera is an elevated farce may work for laughs, or even for grand-guignol tragedy (the end of “The Lisbon Traviata,” when opera invades life).
plumpesdenken commented on the word guignol
"... a grand guignol version of naturalism.." Joe Cleary
July 18, 2007