Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Manhattan's studiously select swankery, the Stork Club, came notice that hefty (circa 260 Ibs.), raffish TV Comic Jackie Gleason had been tossed out on his leer. With him went his blonde companion of the evening. Complained the Stork's Boss Sherman Billingsley: "He was drunk and rowdy, and the girl was even drunker. We don't welcome that caliber of person as a patron." Wailed Gleason: "I thought it was a joke...
...sawdust" is a request for whisky and soda. Devoted to the active verb and the present tense, Pnin invests the simplest acts with explosive vitality ("I never go in a hat even in winter"). In all verbal matters, Pnin would rather be wrong than hesitant, and no doughtier comic immigrant has set foot on the shores of U.S. fiction since Timofey's "tvin" dialectician...
Continuing its programs on funnymen, the Harvard Law School Forum will present comic Danny Kaye at 4:15 p.m. today at Sanders Theater...
...least, freshly observed and the detours more rewarding. But A Hole in the Head has studied human reactions far too little and audience responses far too much: it goes for its laughs to what has many times been laughed at. and in the very act of milking the comic side of Jewish family life, sadly waters it down. Schulman belongs, in fact, to the two-faucet school of playwriting: what's not comedy is sentiment. And at the end, anything knotty or disconcerting just goes down the drain: Pop may play fast and loose, but he loves...
...carried his political opinions over into his own comic strip field. Capp flatly declared that "Orphan Annie is not a Communist," but was not so favorable to other strips. He revealed that eight weeks from now Daisy Mae's favorite comic strip will appear in "Li'l Abner" entitled "Mary Horm, America's Favorite Busybody." He described "Rex Morgan, M.D." as the comic strip that tells you how to enjoy leprosy, rather than how to cure...