Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dance are clearly not Miss Davis' media. The producers should have recognized the limits of her considerable versatility and made better use of her appealing personality and skill as a comedienne. A revue, not a musical comedy, Two's Company might have starred Miss Davis in a number of comic sketches and wrapped the attractive package with the usual musical scenes. Instead, the show leans heavily on the fragile crutch of her singing talents...
...Motol was never too far off. Though Chaim Weizmann was fluent in seven languages, it was in Yiddish that he felt most at home. His humor too was peculiarly Yiddish; his stories the wry, comic-sad little folk tales that Jews tell to illustrate their precarious position in an oftentimes hostile world...
After the show, the contestants argued the point with Comic Marx. Pistol, they insisted, was the correct answer, because Falstaff does not appear in all three plays, but Pistol does. Marx and his show directors retorted that while Falstaff does not appear in the flesh in Henry V, he is there in spirit (Act II, Scene...
Suffering and sighing through puppy romances, they took turns loving the lovely Marisa, a girl who was at least as strong on sentiment as she was on sex. It was all very serious, of course, but also a little comic, and Pratolini does a neat job of simultaneously pitying and teasing his adolescents. He also succeeds in capturing the look of young love. "My companion," muses Valerio, "was a girl of 16, with a crown of golden hair, a shining innocent face; she wore green wool gloves and shoes with medium heels and knitted stockings that came...
Somehow, I feel that McGee might have slipped his point across effectively with this same cast, if he had made his lines and situations a bit more subtle. A boarding house with a crew of eccentrics is a fine setting, but using television to represent the machine age and comic books printed matter is overloading the pack. Smashing an electric computer with a sledgehammer is certainly an effective way of stopping it; but it is much less wearing simply to disengage the plug from its socket...