Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fans who made their way to the Bogota bull ring one day last week to see a Mexican troupe of women bullfighters looked forward to nothing more than a mildly diverting afternoon of watching prudent girls avoid listless bulls. Actually, they were privileged to witness one of the high comic moments of Bogota's bullfight history...
When six-year-old Dickie Bonham began reading Mighty Mouse comic books a few months ago, he was overwhelmed by a pulse-stirring daydream: he began imagining himself flying through the air in red tights, a long-sleeved yellow pulloverand a flowing cape. He was a frail, asthmatic child, but doggedly determined; he hurried from his room in the Bonham home in Highland Park, Calif. and asked his mother whether he could learn to spread his arms...
...Spanish Armada, only to run into more trouble. When he commandeered church property, he was excommunicated. When the government found discrepancies in his accounts, he was thrown into jail. Out of jail at last, he went ahead with his writing. Finally, at 57, he published Part I of the comic, compassionate masterpiece that was to win him little of the fortune, but all of the glory he thirsted...
...women; Maggi's show features a panel of four intimidating ladies in low bodices, who alternate between badgering a male guest and solving such deep questions as "Can a romance that is dead be revived?" Newcomer Palmer, in crediting her audience with enough intelligence to understand dialogue above comic-book level, was challenging a brand of entertainment that TV men had thought just wonderful...
...other house has interchangeable lyric tenors of the quality of Jussi Bjoerling and Richard Tucker: baritones such as Leonard Warren and Robert Merrill; bassos such as Jerome Hines and Cesare Siepi; and dramatic sopranos such as Helen Traubel and Kirsten Flagstad, not to mention the good looks and comic flair of a Patrice Munsel...