Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laurence Harvey is properly icy as the strange Korean War veteran who won a Congressional Medal of Honor for leading a patrol to nearly incredible successes. Frank Sinatra happily avoids overplaying a major in that patrol who begins to wonder what actually happened on it. There is a broadly comic portrayal of a boobish U.S. Senator by James Gregory that calls to mind the antics of the late Joseph McCarthy, and Angela Lansbury is repellantly vicious as his scheming wife...
...seems to me a minor writer with a fairly good comic talent and strong protest in a few books." Lynn mentioned two novels from the '30's. In Dubious Battle and Steinbeck's most famous work, Grapes of Wrath. The Nobel Prize, however, was ostensibly awarded for The Winter of Our Discontent, published last year and panned by critics...
...Kindly Ones, by Anthony Powell. The author's familiar gallery of upper-class English clowns, cuckolds and bounders in the not entirely comic opera that was England between the wars...
...loud, coarse, a monster of appetite, mostly promiscuous. George pursued the truth but has disenchantedly come to regard it as a mirage. In his dream's defeat, he is a monster of intelligence, detached, acid, playful as a cobra, alternating easily from the deadly serious to the deadly comic...
...certain to get all its money back. Not that the picture is a clinker. As Hollywood epics go, it goes well enough. It is long (3 hrs.), but it is never boring. Some of the skirmishes that flare up in the darkness make mighty exciting cinema. Some of the comic relief from combat-a paratrooper who falls from the skies beside a little old lady on her way to the outhouse, another paratrooper who plummets kerplop into a well-is witty and welcome. Some scenes, such as those of paratroopers still in their chute harnesses swinging lifeless from the battle...