Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wodehouse story it is perfectly natural for the cartoonist of a syndicated U.S. comic strip to find himself sharing a British beach resort with contenders in an American-type "Beautiful Babies" contest, for a New York publisher to be found naked in the hothouse of a dwelling on Wimbledon Common, or even for a member of Edwardian London's Drones Club to consult Webster's Dictionary rather than the Oxford. Victorian and Edwardian euphemisms such as "bally" and "ruddy" work their way into the tale of a British knight who once "allowed some hornswoggling highbinder to stick...
...Classic French Theater," the only undergraduate-level French course, will cover comic and tragic genres of the seventeenth century. Paul Benichou, visiting lecturer from the Lycee Condorcet in Paris and professor of French Literature, will lecture...
...nibbles spasmodically at wisps of tobacco-stained mustache, the shoulders twitch like marionettes in the invisible hands of time. But a pagan glint of eye suggests that this is a life less spent than well spent. Then the voice, cracked but not ruined, speaks, and the evening begins showering comic sparks...
...piece of cinema realism. On the face of it. the film is a social satire: a hilarious lampoon of British provincial society, an ironic study of Angry Young Manners and morals, a Swiftian extravaganza on the problems of a social climber in a society without stairs. But behind the comic mask there is the tragedy of social change, which is here expounded as the agony of moral growth, as the spiritual disaster of a young man who might be called the Julien Sorel of the welfare state...
...that glitters is not gold, and there is a fair amount of dross in this anthology of the great comic moments of the silent films. Considered purely as entertainment, The Golden Age of Comedy proves the thesis that movies are better than ever; a few scenes of undeniable hilarity (almost all of them shown in the preview last week) are surrounded by interminable stretches of "classic" but boring sequences...