Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vacuum cleaner. "That boy doesn't need a vacuum cleaner," he said. "He needs a plow." The mess was at its worst in the days when Marlon had a pet raccoon, but even before that, it sometimes got pretty bad. Actress Shelley Winters reports that when Marlon and Comic Wally Cox shared a Manhattan apartment, they once undertook to paint the walls of the place. Says Shelley: "They painted one wall and then, for one solid year, the canvas, the buckets of paint and the brushes lay on the living-room floor. They just stepped around them...
Sabrina. The boss's sons (Humphrey Bogart, William Holden) and the chauffeur's daughter (Audrey Hepburn) are at it again, but thanks to Director Billy Wilder, not all the bloom is off this faded comic ruse (TIME, Sept...
...TIME FOR SERGEANTS, by Mac Hymen (214 pp.; Random House; $2.95), is the comic saga of how the U.S. Air Force grabs a Georgia cracker and learns it has bit off more than it can chew. Will Stockdale is not mean, but too dark an eight ball for even a general to stand behind. He is drafted after a pitched battle on Tobacco Road and in the barracks blows doleful music on his mouth harp to the tune Mother Ain't Dead, She's Only Sleeping. Will's perceptive sergeant appoints him permanent latrine orderly. On inspection...
With mixed parts, mock science-fiction, spoof world government and vibrant nationalism, the film blends its "Yank (et al) Go Home" theme with broad comic touches. Most of the laughs are elementary, not far removed from slapstick. But they are so well timed and startling, often coming in the middle of a propaganda speech, that they are quite good...
Against the rather grim cases of academic freedom violations, one stands out in comic relief. The happenings this year in Alabama would provide material for the funniest political satire since "Of Thee I Sing." It is, however, only because good sense finally won out over monumental blindness that the case can be viewed with any sort of amusement. The spirit that motivated Alabama's Act 888 is not funny...