Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JONES. A peerless comic novel of two centuries ago has been pinched, patted, fondled and smacked into sidesplittingly funny life by Director Tony Richardson. As the hero. Albert Finney makes Olde England jolly indeed, and Hugh Griffith richly earns bed and bawd in a rakehell portrayal of Squire Western...
...comic aspects. On Ameland Island in the Waddenzee group, half the rooms in the tiny Hofker Hotel are occupied by NAM, half by Caltex. After dinner, each side glares at the other in the lobby; at night, the prospectors push their beds across their doors to guard maps and working papers. After technicians from Socony Mobil Oil checked into the adjacent Hotel De Jong, scouts from Caltex and NAM began to frequent the De Jong bar, hoping to pick up valuable slips of the tongue. Last week British Petroleum and a party of French seismologists also landed...
...JONES. A peerless comic novel of two centuries ago has been pinched, patted, fondled and smacked into sidesplittingly funny life by Director Tony Richardson. As the hero, Albert Finney makes Olde England jolly indeed, and Hugh Griffith richly earns bed and bawd in a rakehell portrayal of Squire Western...
Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford are one couple in ten thousand. Their romantic good looks and deft comic timing give the play a believable illogic in which farce becomes fairy tale. As one of the world's funnier women, Mildred Natwick can verbally give a line the same corkscrewy twist that Margaret Rutherford manages with massive facial quirks. Nowadays, when even the comic muse pulls a long face, a smiling, unalloyed joy awaits those who hotfoot it to Barefoot...
...read comic books in the dugout ("I like the ones about crooks best"), once turned down an invitation to dinner at a famous restaurant with the comment: "Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded." On a trip to Italy in 1961, Yogi took in Tosca at La Scala. "It was pretty good," he said. "Even the music was nice." And who can ever forget Lawrence Berra Night in his home town of St. Louis? Yogi stepped up to the microphone and announced: "I want to thank all the baseball fans and everyone else who made this night...