Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fairly wise man once stated the difference between a comedian and a mere buffoon--the comic's humor is methodically pointed while the buffoon will do anything, to provoke a laugh, usually with little success. All this leads up to the thesis that after months of waving his lance through the air with little purpose, Lampy has finally found a good, solid chunk of meat to pierce. The result of his galloping attack on the movie industry is by no means a brilliant satire; yet it is well above the usual Lampoon fare and, on the whole, an amusing collection...
...role of the altruistic inventor who moves imperturbably through all the chaos is tailor-made for Alec (The Lavender Hill Mob) Guinness, with his sad, bland, foxy face. Deft sound-track embroidery: the rhythmical gurgles, bubbles, woofs and squirts of the test tubes that constantly point up the comic hubbub...
This new study is an attempt to penetrate to the real causes of delinquency and crime and to discover some means of preventing not the crime, but the criminal. The Gluecks have repudiated the traditional preventives usually prescribed: the banning of comic books, radio and television shows, which depict criminal episodes: the prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages: the establishment of playgrounds, boys clubs, and casteens. Although all these may be incidentally helpful they certainly do not relate to the root causes of crime...
...comic character was blown up into a full scale controversy last night when Leverett dwellers massed in front of a Crimson Key poster of "Pogo" advertising the May 9 Regatta weekend. Artist Walt Kelly earlier had granted permission to the Leverett dance committee to use his syndicated comic 'possum as a theme for its April 26 dance, the "Pogo Fish Fry and Stomp...
Tour Lure. To lure more tourists, Wyoming's Commerce and Industry Department last week sent out the first of 250,000 free copies of a 16-page color comic book sketching the joys and beauties of the state. The book shows an average American family on vacation-father, mother, daughter and son ("Daddy, stop...