The viceroy prefigures the self-lacerating baritone heroes who were to become a Wagner specialty.

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Seau suffered sub-concussive and concussive blows to the head in the NFL, sometimes lacerating his face, court papers said.

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The 20th century gave us radio and comedian Will Rogers and, a half-century later, the lacerating lampooner Rush Limbaugh.

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Safin produced a rash of lacerating passing shots in the fourth set and broke Lopez twice as he stormed into a 5-2 lead.

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But, while Cummings is lacerating and deadpan, her fictional avatar reminds me less of Roseanne, or even of Silverman, than of someone much older: Lucille Ball.

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His "Tsunami Tour" has swept the length of Italy, filling piazzas with huge crowds that have gathered to hear his lacerating attacks on the traditional parties.

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Alternately deadpan and lacerating, this persona risks alienating the audience, a quality that also happens to be the signature of male sitcom auteurs, including Larry David and Louis C.

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Still, this portrait of the artist as a crazy mixed-up kid has scruffy charm and self-lacerating wit, especially in its satire of the theatre, from school workshops to Off Broadway.

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