Word: comic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
COMEDY IN MUSIC. That matchless mirthmaster of the keyboard, Victor Borge, riffles through gags and slides off the piano bench without altering his usual mask of disdainful dismay. Added notes, comic and musical, are provided by a straight man, noted Pianist Leonid Hambro...
...formal, stylized and decorative to the Western eye. Japanese art is also insistently narrative, copiously illustrative in content. With its scenes of battles and civil war, of palaces looted and burning, of the sea and bustling daily life, art in Japan has served many of the functions of chronicle, comic book, religious tract and daily newspaper. By a skillful selection of paintings and prints. Editor Bradley Smith has managed to tell the tumultuous history of the nation almost entirely through its art, with only the essential minimum of supporting text. The result is also a sweeping survey...
...Nichols is going to direct a couple of movies, The Public Eye for Universal and The Graduates for Joe Levine. He never wants to give up directing plays on the stage, and he has ideas he would like to implement. He thinks Samuel Beckett, for example, is a great comic playwright who is too often treated solemnly and reverentially. "Endgame" he says, "is a fall-down laugh riot," and he would like to prove it. But if he is ambitious, he also has a sense of limit. "The theater properly belongs to the playwright," he says. "A good theatrical director...
...play. Diana Sands is a fiery, sexy shrew who puts plenty of lip on her English. Arms akimbo and eyes aglaze, Alan Alda flaps haplessly after every disaster like a commuter ignored at a bus stop. Director Arthur Storch keeps Pussycat yowling along, and if Playwright Manhoff does some comic counterfeiting, he also mints plenty of sound money lines ("I happen to be an intellectual. That means that I am not at the mercy of what I want...
Since much of the laughter excited by Pussycat is cruel, put-down humor, the why of its comic impact is almost more interesting than the how of it. Nobody much believes in love any more; Broadway has not seen an old-fashioned nonmusical love story in years. This is intimately linked to the image of the modern woman, who does not seem real, at least onstage, unless she can spar, jaw-to-jaw and eyeball-to-eyeball, with her man. As Ibsen would have been the first to recognize, Nora competes at home nowadays, and the doll's house...