Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wide-ranging, often surprisingly comic report on social drinking in America, its causes and effects...
Sebastian Dangerfield, the lusting, heroic anti-hero of Don-leavy's comic first novel, The Ginger Man, was torn between fumbling seductions and desperate attempts to make ends meet. Balthazar B gropes endlessly for an enduring love, denied him at least partly because of his riches. He is born of wealthy French parents, and the circumstances connected with Balthazar's upbringing make him into a shy, porcelain personality curiously inept at coming to terms with life...
...aristocratic orphan whose real name is also Balthazar, Beefy seems to be the protagonist's alter ego. Beefy is boisterous, tough, brawling, and given to priapic pranks. Starting with Beefy's expulsion from school for being a self-confessed "magnificent masturbator," their shared adventures-sometimes poignant, often comic-turn into wretched disasters...
...using his lyrical Joycean prose to explore human emotions. A scene of touching pathos, for example, is broken up when Balthazar is discovered naked and feverishly ill in Breda's bed by her employer's wife. The female fight that follows is unmatched in literature for its comic ferocity. Hair curlers are grabbed, bellies butted, Balthazar's breakfast food spilled, bottles of urine knocked over, dresses ripped-all while Balthazar lies abed and the mistress's husband tries to mediate as if he were secretary-general of the U.N. In the battle, the wife...
...Night at the Opera--George Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind loaded the screenplay with more jokes and comic situations than any movie has a right to have. Groucho, Harpo and Chico are fine and have great foils in Margaret Dumont, Sig Rumann, and the drippy romantic leads, Kitty Carlisle and Allan Jones. Very likely the funniest movie ever made. At the SYMPHONY II, Huntington at Mass...