Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says Shaw to Walkley, "a certain social substance, sexual attraction to wit, for dramatic distillation; and I distill it for you." Thus the main plot of Man and Superman, a sort of Love's Labour's Won with woman as the laborer and man as the winnings; a "serio-comic love chase"; a nimble game in dead earnest of Higher Hide-and-Seek...
Dame Margot Fonteyn, 40, top ballerina of Covent Garden's Royal Ballet, has not been home much recently. Her most publicized wandering pirouetted her smack into "the presidential suite" of a Panamanian jail after her husband, ex-Panamanian Diplomat Roberto ("Tito") Arias, took her along on a comic-opera invasion attempt aimed at overthrowing Panama's government with a motley seven-man force (TIME, May 4). She was booted from the country next day. Last week Covent Garden's directors announced that the West's greatest ballerina will no longer be billed...
...Vries, like a character in one of his novels (Comfort Me with Apples, The Mackerel Plaza. The Tunnel of Love), was left wistfully savoring the sour cream of the jest. This touch of rueful, pun-prone phantasmagoria has made 49-year-old Peter De Vries the leading comic geographer of commuterland. Humorist De Vries surveys his world with the wacky vision of a man who has inadvertently put on the wrong pair of glasses...
...ambitious as Newport's, and most of them feature the same names, though in lesser concentration. Playboy magazine, having been refused permission to use Chicago's Soldier Field, has contracted for Chicago Stadium (seating 20,000). The likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basic, Stan Kenton and Cool Comic Mort Sahl (see SHOW BUSINESS) will perform from a revolving stage, facing an audience decked out in souvenir Playboy jazz blazers and skimmers...
...pure and simple (also impure and not-so-simple). And it is a most significant item in the canon, through being the only play the Bard ever wrote entirely about the ordinary citizenry of his own day and locale. Actually, it is a transferral to the stage of the comic medieval French verse-tale genre known as the fabliau. The fabliaux and the play depict contemporary society and diction, delight in practical jokes, revel in adultery and cuckoldry, and indulge in frank and often obscene language...