Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fresh and unassuming that 34-year-old Writer-Director Miles Forman appears to have put it together without quite realizing the strength of his perceptions. The seeming simplicity conceals extraordinary skill: Forman observes small human aspirations very precisely, then borrows the style of a documentary to carve out a comic slice of life in swift, easy strokes...
...village pharmacist to form a string quartet in a rehearsal sequence that is disrupted by intramural arguments and arthritic aches, with additional time called by Peter's giddy girl friend for sexual overtures and fun with a cat. The scene is a brilliant tour de force of unstrained comic invention...
Bomb Victims. Violence is as contagious as the measles, says Wertham, and far more prevalent. Children are sent early to the "school for violence," where crime comic books are the texts and television dramas the instructors...
Died. Al Kelly, 69, doubletalking comic, who for 51 years delighted all sorts of audiences, prompting conventioning doctors to nod sagely at such prescriptions as "injections of triprobe into the right differnarian" and once inspiring Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton to exclaim: "If ever a man be longed in Washington, you do"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Love You. Shelley Winters will play in Under the Weather, a trilogy by Novelist Saul Bellow; Shelley will be disturbed in all three. Neil Simon (Odd Couple) will be on deck for the third straight season with The Star Spangled Girl, who is an ex-Olympic swimmer, while Comic Woody Allen has turned playwright with Don't Drink the Water, a comedy that laughs at the cold war. Gertrude Berg will play a theater-party agent in The Play Girls, and Alfred Drake and Joan Greenwood will star in a comedy about Hamlet's strolling players...