Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watercolor. The general's foundling son may just be the latest in a long Gilbertian line; but the Jostling father, the middle-aged satyr with his subaltern dreams, who finds it harder to grow older because he has never really grown up, is part of a sharper comic vision. The figure of the general suggests that there would be much less war between men and women were there not so often war in one and the same breast between...
...Gushing Paley, Long Island Newsday Publisher Alicia Patterson, Broadway Producer Richard Halliday and his musicomedienne wife Mary Martin, retiring G.O.P. National Committee Chairman Leonard W. Hall (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), New York's freshman Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits, New York Herald Tribune President-Editor Ogden R. Reid, TV Comic Sid Caesar...
...Geordie. A stiff comic punch delivered by the British-an intoxicating mixture of Scotch and wry; with Bill Travers, Alastair Sim (TIME...
...doing imperfectly only part of what the TV advertiser needs done-and spreading unhappiness in the process. But until something better comes along, TV finds them indispensable. "I'm not bitter and I'm sure they're as honest as they can be," said one unemployed comic last week. "But it's like the story of the gambler who played the roulette wheel in this little town and kept losing all night, until a fellow came up and said: 'Look, bud, that wheel is fixed.' 'I know,' said the gambler...
...formula for the situation-comedy series is the electronic version of the old comic strip, with its broadly caricatured characters, simon-simple situations and zam-powie slapstick. Two new series made the point last week. Blondie (NBC, Fri. 8 p.m., E.S.T.) carried its own comic-strip pedigree. Mr. Adams and Eve (CBS, Fri. 9 p.m., E.S.T.) offered husband-and-wife Hollywood stars playing husband-and-wife Hollywood stars. Howard Duff as a vain boob, Ida Lupino as the archetypically wise better-half. Except for wife Lupino's acerbic way with a line, it never got off the comic page...