Word: comical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AWAY WE GO (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Comic George Carlin takes off on a new summertime musical variety hour with two Buddys, Greco and Rich, at his side. Sheila MacRae is the guest on the premiere show...
Theaters of Action. The first payoff was a chance to audition for the U.S. film, The War Lover. He was given 24 hours to acquire an American accent, spent the night steeping himself in an album by a comic named Woody Woodbury. The jokes, recalls Crawford, were awful, but his accent was bang-on and he got the part. Next came his West End debut in the comedy Come Blow
Though accompanied by a string quartet, harpsichord, organ and woodwinds, Berberian wisely resists the temptation to patronize the Beatle music or gimmick it up. There may be comic incongruity in her highfalutin version of Yellow Submarine, and Paul McCartney, surprisingly enough, sings Eleanor Rigby a great deal more movingly than Cathy does. Yet in such waifish songs as Michelle, Here There and Everywhere and Yesterday, her tasteful, straightforward singing warmly underlines John Lennon's lyrics and McCartney's inventive melodies...
...home to Milan in time to welcome her new record of Berio's Circles and Sequensa Ill, and to prepare for next week's Contemporary Music Festival at Geneva. There she will do her own composition Stripsody, an unaccompanied vocal fantasy based on themes from the comic strips. Sample lyrics: "Arrgy . . . Gulp . . . Good grief! . . . Blam . . . Blam . . . It's Superman...
...store stocked with his own enameled-plaster foodstuffs and clothing, and became one of the progenitors of pop. That humorists such as Kaplan and Pistoletto can find galleries in Manhattan nowadays is largely because Oldenburg's monster hamburgers and soft vinyl Dormeyer mixers made comic contemporary art acceptable, indeed sometimes all but inescapable. "Jokes," says Oldenburg, with all the Nordic intensity of a Bergman, "are one way to reach people. Perhaps humor is the only useful tool in a dissolving world...