In Vanished Years he reveals more stories from his childhood as well as tragic and comic encounters involving both friends and rivals.

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Much better is the heartrending, tragic-comic scene when Eckhart's Howie takes it upon himself to show the house to prospective buyers, only to fall apart when they come to the nursery.

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If it were not so tragic it would be comic.

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If it wasn't tragic it might be comic, that there is so little consensus among politicians, bankers and economists about whether the weakness in the economy stems more from inadequate supply or weak demand.

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At dinner with friends in a Greenwich Village restaurant, two playwrights, one tragic (Larry Pine), one comic (Wallace Shawn), offer alternate versions of the same story: Melinda (Radha Mitchell), a distraught young woman, shows up, unannounced, at a dinner party held by old friends and intrudes upon their lives.

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The hesitation, stammering, and lack of a coherent fact-based response would be comic, but also in a sense, tragic.

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