Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conjugal Bed--An acting out in human terms of the fierceness of the queen bee's desire for motherhood and the fate of the drone who dares to satisfy her. Unlikely as it seems, an extremely comic picture. The New Yorker, December...
...dark and dead. Mr. Docken and Miss Collinge were strong in their final despair and they occasionally exploited the rich humor of the text. The finest comic moments, however belonged to Michael Solomon, who as the judge of supernatural events is almost worth the price of the ticket. His timing is keen, his voice wonderfully flexible, and his facial expressions consistently alive and amusing. John Weiner has a brief but superbly played part...
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...
JENNIE subjects Mary Martin to the terrors of waterfall and torture wheel, but these are comic larks compared to the book and lyrics of this musical that glooms through the early days of Laurette Taylor...
Anguished in spirit but comic in detail, Author Carruth's convoluted tale is a convincing, step-by-step chronicle of a mind stretching beyond its breaking point. But Appendix A is more than case history. If modern man predicates his behavior on a world of non-meaning, Carruth suggests, even the hint of meaning can cripple...