Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...list for Chamberlain's congressional newsletter. When the stream of visitors slows down, Chamberlain jumps up, stuffs shopping bags ("How could that printer be so stupid as to print my name on only one side of the bag?") with emery boards for the ladies, matchbooks for the men, comic books and balloons for the kids. Then he hurries off ("When there aren't any customers, I go out and find them"), making the rounds of the barbershops, stores, and especially the supermarkets. "Good morning," he says. "I'm Chuck Chamberlain, your Congressman. Have a shopping...
...Parisienne (French). Brigitte Bardot, leaning voluptuously on the sure comic talents of Charles Boyer and Henri Vidal, finally makes a film that is as funny as it is fleshy...
...cast the leading role as close as possible to this ideal. In fact, it is safe to say that no woman in the world is remotely like Giulietta Masina; that may be one reason her performance carries such conviction. Masina's face, though never down-rightly funny, is always comic--and usually pathetic into the bargain. Even when not made up in clown-white, it is a clown-face. It seems to be changing, frowning, smiling, always with one eye on the reaction of its audience--perhaps this is the essential quality of the clown-face--but this becomes...
...comic felt at peace with the world, so he decided to call a boyhood pal, now an undertaker in Ohio. "This is Elwood P. Suggins," he said, choosing a phony name and his best rube twang. "My brother passed away Sunday a week, and I wonder if you could do a job." Said the undertaker: "Good God, man, Sunday a week! Where is he?" Replied the comic: "Out on the porch against the lattice. That cold spell that set in kept him harder than a carp. But then that warm spell set in, and he commenced to get pretty fleshy...
...Parisienne (French). Brigitte Bardot, leaning voluptuously on the sure comic talents of Charles Boyer and Henri Vidal, finally makes a film that is as funny as it is fleshy...