Word: comically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED romps through the lighter side of life during the crash, the Depression and World War II. The Porter wit and comic insight prove there was indeed a lighter side...
Tennis, Anyone? So is Terry-Thomas. Though after 30 films he has virtually monopolized the comic English codger role and added his own lunatic stripe to the Old School Tie, it is often hard to tell whether he is spoofing the upper-crust Briton or simply being one. On his travels, like any Blimp setting off on safari, he packs his portmanteaus with sartorial accouterments for every conceivable occasion: white flannels for tennis, plus fours for golf, blazer for cricket, bowler, boater and deerstalker, tweeds, pinstripes, tails. Everything but the old elephant gun. He claims that he needs all those...
...DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED is a romp through the lighter side of life during the crash, the Depression and World War II. The Porter wit and comic vision prove there was indeed a lighter side...
Among those arrested were Congress of Racial Equality Director James Farmer, Negro Comic Dick Gregory and High School Teacher Albert Raby, who organized the march. Said Raby: "We're going to see to it that it will be a long, hot summer for Daley. Every Negro who cannot march will be asked to turn on all his faucets and drain the water." That seemed an especially silly way to protest, and could lead not only to a long, hot summer for Chicago but a long, dry one as well...
...must inevitably drag. James A. Culpepper's Phyllis Anderson Award-winning Treason at West Point combined inept dialogue and inadequate characterization. It was barely competent. Anthony Graham-White's adaptation of Johnson, Marston, and Chapman's Eastward Ho! had more potential--it suffered most from a lack of good comic actors. But the play is hardly an old standby...