Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. Since Plautus originally wrote it, this musical is more than 2,000 years old, but the situations are still funny, the houris are delectable, and Zero Mostel is a pluperfect master of the comic revels...
...BOYS FROM SYRACUSE. Plautus does it again, this time with the added tinkering of Shakespeare, George Abbott, and Rodgers and Hart. Apart from being a tuneful comic delight, the show contains an adorable and gifted cutie named Julienne Marie...
...name that I should look for in the index would be Evelyn Waugh." Sadly, he would be right. Alec, 65, is a skilled journeyman writer of novels (Island in the Sun) and travel books (Hot Countries), but he has the misfortune of having a younger brother who is a comic genius. Happily, for most of his autobiography he manages to forget that fact and concentrate on his own story-which often reads like an extension of his fiction...
...troll-infested castle. Another runs a progressive school in which the past is ignored on the ground that if it had any value, it would not be past. People go around saying things like, "I can't believe I'm really here. Wherever here is." A comic madman who lives in the castle paints cars, owls and house guests white...
Right Sequence. Instead, Gover offers what at first seems to be some blessed burlesque relief. In a comic will-she-or-won't-she seduction scene, the clever reporter, taking time out from the case, is cossetted, cozened and finally totally defeated by a sumptuous, fluff-headed salesgirl who is canny enough to keep the only two ideas she ever had-marriage and bed-in their proper sequence. Given today's liberal standards and the girl's palpably provocative evasions, a reader is likely to find himself lightheartedly rooting for the reporter. The doings and undoings, anyway...