Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Love's victory is Pyrrhic, however, and Cressida soon succumbs to a Prince of Greece, who can provide security and a house in Connecticut. The Greek is nevertheless the tool of Mars, who is the real villain, and provides the climax, which is tragic for Ashton and perhaps slightly comic for the audience...
Overlap. In Miami Beach, bewildered Marshall Frey, 10, who had two stitches taken in his leg after he rammed his bike into a parked car, explained to a policeman that he was riding along, peacefully reading his comic book, when...
...most of the minor ones. For the constructive plan of Othello, Shakespeare's most masterly, and most daring, occurs nowhere else in the playwright's works. Othello lacks the usual extraneous trappings and non-essentials. We do not have here scenes of tension or conflict alternating with scenes of "comic relief"; nor do we have any separate sub-plots. Everything is directly related to the main current of the drama. Once Iago begins to poison Othello's mind, the play moves slowly, unswervingly and unalterably to the final catastrophe like a runaway steamroller grinding down a hill. But the conflict...
...first used the name O. Henry-he chose the last name, said Porter, out of the society columns of a New Orleans newspaper and the initial O. because it is "about the easiest letter written." These first stories have all the professionalism of his later work-they are sentimental, comic, marvelously contrived and carry a sting of surprise at the end. Many turn on what was to be a constant theme for O. Henry: the vindication of a man who has seemingly forfeited all claim to respect...
...Once experiment-minded in summer, CBS contemplates only one new show: a live comedy-variety spot for young (29) Dick Van Dyke, an Orson Beanish kind of comic who earlier served on To Tell the Truth. Humorist Sam Levenson's quiz game Two for the Money will share Saturday's Jackie Gleason hour with filmed editions of old Jimmy Durante shows. The newest hillbilly darling, Jimmy Dean, will continue his weekday morning show and also move into CBS's "new talent spot" on Saturday night at 10:30-a bonus for having clobbered NBC's Today...