Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obviously pleased with himself when he apes Groucho Marx's loping stance or speaks with W. C. Fields' adenoidal sneer that it is difficult for anyone in the audience not to be pleased with him. It is the kind of cool, well-finessed stunting with which a clever boy might regale a proud mother. As such, it is always audience-conscious rather than play-and co-player-oriented, the last two again being the marks of a fine actor as opposed to a stage personality...
PHOTOGRAPHY also serves humor. In "Miss American Icon" he "throws" photographs of a cross, and a star-shaped cutout of a face into a funny hand-scrawled wastebasket. The caption for this clever mixture of media is "old symbols...
Nonetheless, the star of the evening had to be its director, Charles Heckschet. His clever stagings combine perfectly with choreographer Barbara Clark's dance numbers--and in the close quarters of the Leverett old library that attests to a happy collaboration. If that doesn't prove Heckschet's worth, watch him as The Girl's Father--a part he had to take over a few days ago. He doesn't look old enough, he can't quite sing, but his intricate vaudeville routines are delightful...
...Audio Lab ad on the back cover graphically shows, there are times when an appeal to animal emotions gets nauseating). But there does seem to be an inherent confusion of purpose in the Lampoon's approach to its role as "humor magazine." In most of this month's pieces, clever Poonies work from the assumption that if they imitate any kind of over-used literary genre, the result will be funny. Often...
...pieces in the Turkey issue show the two poles of the current Poonie identity crisis. A purported ad placed by "Gershon Rolnick" is at the end, protesting the Lampoon's anti-contraception march last month. Even though the whole thing smacks a bit of self-congratulatory free publicity for clever pranks, the ad is funny, and one suspects that the Poonies' hearts lie with this kind of straight-joke appeal...