Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first installment, Shakespeare sticks closely to business. There are in Richard II no scenes of comic relief such as adorn the three succeeding installments. Here the dramatist concentrates on four main phases: Richard's regnal recklessness: his cousin Bolingbroke's victorious invasion to retrieve his rightful property; Richard's voluntary abdication; and Bolingbroke's assured assumption of the throne as Henry...
...contrived messages. Its just like Dylan, he can say in a few words what it would take Janis Ian a whole song to get at. I've only recently begun to listen to Dylan's songs closely and they're very literate. Like Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat. its comic and intelligent. very good as literature." All this delivered in the soft slurring curiously exciting working-class London accent...
...from 1946 to 1948. Graziano, the Dead End kid from Brooklyn, and Zale, the "Man of Steel" from Gary, Ind., wheezed through all of three rounds, swung such friendly punches that they scarcely ruffled a hair, and quickly retired to ringside to mix it up instead with their referee, Comic Alan King, who tactfully scored it a draw...
...standard Hollywood product is the current Black Power slogan, "Ungawa!"-a fake African chant from a Tarzan picture. Even in 1950 reruns, Negroes are chuckleheaded or criminal. In mystery pictures, it is a Negro who discovers the corpse and scampers away shouting "Feets do yo' stuff!" Says the comic: "I don't want any dark innuendoes." Chirps the chauffeur: "Anybody call me?" Even such all-black musicals as Stormy Weather and Cabin in the Sky patronized as they provided employment. "It's been a long journey to this moment," said Sidney Poitier when he received his Oscar...
...COUPLE. Neil Simon's Broadway hit about an alimony-poor sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and his divorce-bound buddy (Jack Lemmon) is transferred to the screen virtually intact, although Actor Matthau's comic genius more than compensates for the static mise en scene...