Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...zany who enjoys pricking the conscience of all associated with TV or radio, Comic Henry Morgan began stabbing (on NBC's Monitor) at those innocent bystanders known as critics. Said Morgan: "A Broadway critic who reviews a TV play that was expanded for the stage always says, 'This offering was too slight to be expanded.' A TV critic discussing a Broadway play adapted to television always says, 'This offering was too big to be cut down...
...bitterest books ever written, Candide is also one of the gayest-its razor-edged, wit-propelled story generally galloping at such speed as to make its fantastic pile-up of catastrophes almost as hilarious as they are horrifying. Converting Candide into a "comic operetta" is perforce a major operation. For the whizzing variety of incident must be duplicated by musical, visual, verbal, choreographic variety of treatment. Seldom, thanks to Scene Designer Oliver Smith and Costume Designer Irene Sharaff, has calamity been more glowingly or sumptuously caparisoned; such things as the stage set of Lisbon and the Guardi-like Venetian figures...
...Geordie. The stiffest comic punch the British have delivered since High and Dry-an intoxicating mixture of Scotch and wry; with Bill Travers, Alastair Sim (TIME...
...media. There is a passion for justice, as represented by the Sacco-Vanzetti series, and passion for life. Children eating ice cream cones, lovers in a dream, musicians absorbed in the playing of their music so that one can almost hear the notes. The artist is sentimental, pained, jubbilent, comic. An unusually fine draughtsman, only upon occasion does Shahn fall into confusion of details or lack of definition as I think happens in Labyrinth which could more neatly be titled "whirlwind...
...Geordie. The stiffest comic punch the British have delivered since High and Dry-an intoxicating mixture of Scotch and wry; with Bill Travers, Alastair Sim (TIME...