Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT brings an antipodal pair, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, back to Broadway with a jaunty, sly revue in what they call the "theater of kindness." They scramble their comic omelet with such pixy princeliness that it becomes a royal banquet of mirth...
...Swann opens his mouth, he can be equally and extravagantly nutty-as when he remarks on infant care: "If you put a baby in the bath and it turns red, it's too hot for your elbow." Inevitably, a few eggs are laid in the making of a comic omelet, but Flanders and Swann scramble their humor with such pixy princeliness that it becomes a royal banquet of mirth...
...whimsy is flimsy in this filler thriller, but the bulldog idea never quite lets go, and the last scene has real comic bite. When the Kremlin finally twigs the Trojan dog, poor Stanley is captured by some nasty-looking Russian agents and, while still in a coma, transformed by Russian surgeons into history's first Trojan jackass...
Much of the news and photographs coming out of Viet Nam last week dealt with some veteran troupers - rather than troops. Playing to as many as 15,000 men in Pleiku and Cam Ranh Bay, Comic Bob Hope marked his 25th year entertaining U.S. servicemen in the field with some well-received variations on well-known routines. Sample: "You Catholics will be glad to know you can now eat Spam on Fridays." Traveling much the same circuit during his first Viet Nam visit, Evangelist Billy Graham was astounded at the size of his turnouts. When 2,500 G.I.s showed...
...early days of film animation-1928-that Disney labored and brought forth his Mouse. Mickey was the first situation comic: saucereared, squeak-voiced (it was Disney's voice on the early sound tracks), perfectly sensible, always cheerful, and eternally scampering in and out of trouble. He and the rest of the Disney bestiary were instantaneous hits with audiences primarily because they were anthropomorphic, hilarious because they were so incongruous. The loose-limbed, dim-witted dog Pluto was an unequal match for a piece of flypaper. Goofy was also a dog, but with more human attributes, who introduced each...