Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE. Playwright Peter Shaffer shows his comic range in two one-acters-one about the strain of early love, not knowing how to win by being casual, the other about the strain and boredom of later love, not knowing how to win by seeing anew...
...play calls her) is clever in speech, stupid about life. At long last, she wants to be her own woman, though there is no proof that she has ever really been anyone else's. The selfish mistakes of a lifetime gradually filter into her drawing room to offer comic rebuke. One son marries the spitfiery image of his mother, and the couple travels to the brink of divorce. Too little love, rather than too much, has turned another son into a mother's boy, and he has married a nymphomaniac. A discarded husband and father of 29 years...
...Teaser. Ford is the most conspicuous in framing its appeal to youth. It has organized a hootenanny show that tours U.S. colleges, publishes Sunday comic strips featuring the exploits of Ford-powered racing cars in 108 papers, and offers Ford books on driving to 1,500,000 high school students by direct mail. Ford is also concentrating on a youth market that so far has been largely ignored by the other automakers: the nation's 300,000 hot rodders. It has a five-man team that visits hot-rod exhibits and rallies around the country, exhibiting five hot rods...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK should probably insure its audiences with Lloyd's of London, just in case anyone dies laughing. Playwright Neil Simon's unpredictable wit, Mike Nichols' spry direction, and Robert Redford and Elizabeth Ashley's comic finesse as a pair of blissfully wacky newlyweds provide incessant merriment...
...unruly bits and pieces of Lee Oswald's life continued to come to light last week, there were a few kind words for him from at least his mother. "Lee was such a fine, high-class boy," insisted Mrs. Marguerite Oswald. "He didn't waste time with comic books and trashy things. On Sundays I'd take him to church and then we'd have lunch somewhere and go to the zoo. If my son killed the President," she said, "he would have said so. That's the way he was brought...