Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father Graf soon found more compelling reasons for opposing the contest. He discovered that the full-page ads announcing the contest over the A.C.U.'s name were being placed in romance magazines (Life Romances, Romance Confessions), comic books (Lovers, My Own Romance, Diary Confessions), confidential magazines and other pulps with sexy or lurid themes and pictures. Shocked, he resigned from the A.C.U., took to his pulpit to condemn the contest as "barely legal, hardly legitimate and highly unethical...
Love & History. The public has been fed situation comedy until it is almost fed up (TIME, June 27), but viewers still love I Love Lucy. How long the love affair will continue depends on how much comic inventiveness Desi and Lucy can put into their formula of a young couple getting in and out of slapstick situations with a well-shaken mixture of low-class cunning and high-class ineptitude. Last week the re-run of an old Lucy was neither comic nor inventive. Lucy's idea of fun was to return repeatedly to a nightclub...
...musclemen of assorted sizes a chance to flex their biceps for a friendly and admiring audience. Appropriately enough, it was Heavyweight Paul Anderson who made the biggest hit. The 22-year-old titan from Toccoa. Ga. looked for all the world like a living caricature of Humphrey Pennyworth, the comic-strip strongman. Here in the flesh was the giant of a capitalist fairy tale. Almost as wide as he is high (5 ft. 10 in., 340 Ibs.), Anderson toyed with the big bar bells and set two world records in the process. "We rarely have such weights lifted," said...
...parties too long because I didn't know when to go." This time, after a few days of dalliance on the island of Burano, Hepburn goes home. Isa Miranda and young Gaetano Audiero help make Venice seem appealing, while MacDonald Parke and Jane Rose work hard as comic U.S. tourists. The Eastman Color and the camerawork by Jack Hildyard are superb...
...truth, the potion was more like a pousse-café, an adroitly chosen series of excerpts from Chinese operas that-in China-may run as long as seven hours apiece. It went heavy on astonishing acrobatics, mimicry and comic pantomime, the spectacular sauce of the Chinese originals. What was left of the dramas was put across by exquisite, formalized gestures, e.g., a tearless eye elaborately wiped on a sleeve, a circular motion of a hand on breast to indicate meditation, a ritual lifting of feet as actors entered the stage. All these were perfectly punctuated by the gaudy sounds...