Word: comically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russia's world record-holding high juniper Valeri Brumel, 23, in a Moscow hospital with a double fracture of the right knee suffered when his motorcycle skidded on a Moscow street; Comic Art Carney, 47, resting in a Hartford (Conn.) sanitarium after what his manager called "nervous tension, depression and a lot of things I won't go into" forced him to abandon his role in Broadway's The Odd Couple; TV Actress (Peyton Place) Dorothy Malone, 35, mending in Hollywood's Cedars of Lebanon Hospital after a dangerous seven-hour operation to remove massive blood...
Fonda makes frantic efforts to ring in a company lawyer, a doctor and a hyperthyroid magazine editor (Sandy Baron) to thwart the ultranatural-childbirth plot. This keeps the stage busy, but what keeps the play moving is undrying freshets of laughter, the limber comic pacing of Director Gene Saks, and the abrasive tension of the generational tug-of-war. The son-in-law's nose is keener than his intelligence. He scents corruption in every institution, but he demands a kind of impossible social purity, something akin to repealing the Industrial Revolution. The father has permitted an urgent sense...
...bumbling zero. Brooks recalls, "I was sick of looking at all those nice sensible situation comedies. They were such distortions of life. If a maid ever took over my house like Hazel, I'd set her hair on fire. I wanted to do a crazy, unreal comic-strip kind of thing about something besides a family. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first." The idiot is Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, played by reformed Stand-Up Comic Don Adams. Smart has little piggy eyes, a voice that sounds like...
...slapdash way, Woman is an eccentric comic parody of King Lear. Mrs. Lord is a solid-gold widow of 75, with nothing on her Bostonian brain but freshly dyed hair and a yen for yachts. Lear courts catastrophe when he parts with his realm; Mrs. Lord gets into trouble when her daughters fear that she will squander her fortune on herself. Lear is cast out on the storm-blasted heath and loses his mind; Mrs. Lord is kidnaped after a Boston Symphony concert and railroaded to a loony...
...simple exercise in homesickness is made to bear many other burdens, and its surface conceals, or seems to conceal, hidden meanings. Among them is not the introduction of a character named Khrushchov; in a foreword, Nabokov explains that the name was chosen innocently, though it has since picked up "comic" resonance...