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And though the corn is as high as an elephant's eye, even the daffily contrived ending somehow works.

And here came Harry Terwilliger, being more or less pulled along by our big boy, who was wearing his wide and daffily charming smile.

The result is "a daffily hilarious book, even though it is pervasively concerned with the importance of Death and Judgment."

Ronnie Scheib of Variety said that it was an "enjoyable, daffily improbable escapist romp".

The clip presents a daffily skewed take on conventional coffee commercials, featuring a horde of impossibly cheerful people rampaging through a town.

Jon Levenson makes an excellent Demetrius, but he's also a daffily reggae-esque Peter Quince.

She was panting and her face streamed with sweat, but she looked almost daffily pleased to be where she was and who she was.

The work has real visual wit: Mr. Goldsworthy goes for what he calls a high-school poster style and gets it right, so that everything looks both daffily meticulous and last-minute.

In 1587, Goltzius engraved Spranger's daffily complex jumbo design titled "Wedding of Cupid and Psyche," with results brilliant enough to give printmaking itself new cachet.

A 1968 Nixon ad reveling in Democratic Party chaos, for instance, is a wordless montage of the Chicago convention, Vietnam and civil unrest, set to a daffily jaunty rendition of "Happy Days Are Here Again."

Focusing on life among the landed (though penurious) Anglo-Irish gentry, a class that has become almost daffily superfluous in 20th-century Eire, Mrs. Keane has produced a dozen novels, 10 of them before 1952, when early widowhood interrupted her writing.

But it's hard to see how anyone with an open heart and an open mind could fail to be charmed by Ms. Ruhl's fantastical comedy about the curlicued interrelationships among a workaholic doctor, her daffily melancholy sister and a maid who has an allergy to cleaning.

But Mr. Pyron, who previously trained his hyperanalytical eye on Margaret Mitchell (in the well-received "Southern Daughter") and "Gone With the Wind," is daffily intent on making a scholarly study of the performer famed for introducing rhinestone-studded hot pants to Las Vegas.

It's at the convenience store that we first meet Mitch (Hamish Linklater), who in a daffily surreal conversation with the clerk (the drolly brilliant Lucas Papaelias) eventually conveys that his father, a police officer, has recently been killed and that the sack of dirt he's carrying is actually the man's ashes.