Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quite in phase. Besides holding fast to the screenplay's construction, Simon has used several short sections of dialogue intact, which have in common that they come from the story's more serious episodes. In the funnier scenes, he has cut loose with his own comic style, adding dialogue that is unmistakably Simon's to dialogue unmistakably Wilder's and Diamond...
...Comic Third...
...comic third inning started innocently enough, as second baseman Dick McAuliffe drew a walk from Card starter Ray Washburn, who had already allowed two runs in the inning before. Then the onslaught began...
After ten minutes, the chanting ring in Selma broke up; no one was hurt. But the incident was valuable as an indication. After it was over, as we sat together in the "house with the niggers," it began to seem comic, but the laughs were strained...
...running the war. For better or worse, they have been bad propagandists. The extent to which any administration can deceive the public without control of the media is fortunately limited, but the Johnson Administration has repeatedly misused its still formidable weapons of persuasion. The blunders have been sometimes comic, sometimes pitiable, sometimes scandalous. The story of the we-will-be-out-by pledges is well known, but there are other failures. For instance, it would seem no great problem to coordinate the statements of the President and his Secretaries of Defense and State. And yet, in at least one instance...