Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of the cast cannot fill the vacuum left by this Joan, but George Grizzard achieves a telling comic portrait of the Dauphin. He is petulant, epicene; he oozes suppressed venom. Wandering erratically about the stage like an uncooped hen, he scratches up laugh after laugh...
HIGH SPIRITS. A house was never haunted by so blithe a spirit as Tammy Grimes, and Bea Lillie is the comic conjurer who brings her back to earth to tempt her husband and torture his second wife...
HIGH SPIRITS. A house was never haunted by so blithe a spirit as Tammy Grimes, and Bea Lillie is the comic conjurer who brings her back to earth to tempt her husband and torture his second wife...
...image as a "carpetbagger" who was born in San Francisco but had not lived in California for seven years (he was a Virginia resident when he jumped into the Senate race). Occasionally, however, when the brass bands strike up California Here 1 Come or P.S. I Love You, a comic in the crowd suggests a rendition of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny...
Here is a good book for reading period. Nearly always funny, A Fine Madness relates the adventures of a talented and amoral poet, one Sampson Shillitoe, who is undergoing psychoanalysis to remove his writer's block. The novel maintains a high comic tone, and certain passages are classic, both in conception and execution...