Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could give a hamburger that certain "jenny-say-kwah," Lahr mugged, pranced, bellowed ("Ngha, ngha, ngha-a-a-a-!"), did all that a master's timing could do for some jokes so long-fused they may explode on next week's show. By lavishing a lifetime of comic know-how on his role, Lahr salvaged a few minutes of fun from what may be the ultimate in ersatz-an hour of hothouse Runyon...
Despite the toll of influenza on the cast, Thomas Teal directed a sensitive and thoughtful production. He shuffled his brood on and off stage rapidly, and brought some comic order out of their wild gestures and earnest accusations. Costumes, lighting, and sets were all excellent...
...foremost political pianist, often reads like an edition of Munich Confidential. Politically and morally, it has the usual 20-20 hindsight. Its value for future historians will lie mostly in the gossipy anecdotes that show Hitler in his moments of off-platform relaxation-some of them very comic, as when Adolf, after the failure of the beer hall Putsch, threatens to commit suicide, but allows himself to be easily disarmed by Hanfstaengl's pregnant wife...
...whole insidious plot designed to demean the fair name of Harvard will transpire in the comic strip "Li'1 Abner," and was hatched by the cartoon's creator, Al Capp, a man with a cause...
...there comes the dreadful day when it is reported from Simochka's university that she has been overheard making anti-party statements. This is serious business-only last year, two students had to be shot for forming a secret society. At this moment Novelist Grinioff's comic theme bursts into full cauliflower as his outraged Communist echoes the cry of many a rich bourgeois with a difficult child: "Where did she learn such words? She had a governess...