Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play itself, a magnificent joke, was an admirable first choice for the freshman because its dialogue is fast and free. The two sub-plots, involving preposterous schemes to make fools of Malvolio, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and Viola, are very quick and it is here that the players show a comic enthusiasm which should have been sustained throughout the production. Director S. Heilpern Randall, with his good sense of the Shakespearean line, exploits the complete ludicrousness of the situation by treating it colloquially. In the rapid cross-fire of jokes in the garden and duel scenes...
...buying spree, snapping up expensive but unsuitable executives, trained seals, special features and the syndicated columns that were then coming into vogue. (To this day the Post runs 15 syndicated columns, from Walter Lippmann to Walter Winchell, more than any other U.S. paper, plus no fewer than 35 daily comic strips.) Once, during his purchasing zeal, Meyer noticed general gloom over the standing of the Washington Senators baseball team. He called in Sports Columnist Shirley Povich and asked what was wrong. "It's their pitching," said Povich. Asked Meyer: "Can we buy a pitcher? How much do they cost...
Divorced. Hal Peary, 46, jowly radio comic and the original giggling star of The Great Gilder sleeve; by Gloria Holiday, 29, onetime radio and TV performer; after ten years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
Letters from viewers pour in at a rate of 1,500 a week. "The kids' requests show the effect of comic books," says Baker sadly. "They're always wanting horrible things like two trains crashing into each other at 90 miles an hour." An entire grade of Minneapolis schoolchildren wrote in asking to see Joan of Arc burned at the stake. There was only one dissenter in the class: he wanted to see a ship blow up in midocean...
...most duels, the serious blends insensibly with the comic. The countess makes bequests of gems she has pawned, mistakes total strangers for lifetime friends. But in her infrequent lucid moments, the countess teaches young Carmela that the full life requires the taste of a connoisseur and the instincts of a gambler. "Never economize with life," she warns. "It never gives anything back." Carmela suddenly acquires the confidence of her own sexual power and beauty. It shines through to a film director (clearly modeled on Vittorio De Sica) who screen-tests the young beauty at just about the time that...