Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with an accompaniment wisely lifted from Wonderful Town rather than In Central Asia,Calvin has one of the best bits in the show. Joan Diener, as the Wazir's crrant wife, is sultry and sarcastic, with a figure to please even the most myopic in the second balcony. With comic relish, she joins Drake in the slaughter of a smutty little horror called "Oasis of Delightful Imaginings" ("The breeze that cools the dunes there has an opposite effect on the pantaloons there."). Doretta Morrow is piquant as Kismet's sole ingenue, particularly in "Stranger in Paradise," the most successful hybrid...
...ransom money, for which police are still searching. After confessing. Hall sank into a sullen silence, and Mrs. Heady asked for a pencil so she could work a crossword puzzle. The request was refused because she was classed as a "maximum security prisoner." So she settled down with a comic book: Intimate Love. Hall was being kept in solitary confinement, so that other prisoners would not harm...
...what about meat? Even red meat?" Mouthing his words like a music-hall comic, Churchill spluttered: "I am always very chary with percentages . . . I like short words and vulgar fractions. Well, here is the plain vulgar fact: in the first two years of the Tory government, the British nation has actually eaten 400,000 tons more meat, including red meat, than they did in the last two years of the Socialist administration." And with that, Sir Winston Churchill rinsed out his mouth with, of all things, a glass of cold water. Grimacing like the champion brandy drinker that...
...fill every cup, no matter how big or how small" with learning, the public schools have as yet failed to interest a great stratum of intelligent, but recalcitrant or lazy boys & girls. In what might be termed the era of the slob, young worshipers of the'television comic, the bookie and the comic-book monster can slip off into easy "general" courses and finish their school years with their minds practically ungrooved by thought...
Unfortunately, the first half of the film wrings all the humor from Pott's predicament, leaving the second no fuel to run off. The Moscow scenes, which could have been hilarious, are eked out with stock routines which lost their humor three years ago. The only really comic sequence in the second half if Potts' imitation of a Chinese delegate as he escapes through a Berlin Peace Conference...