Word: comically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knots bulge in the play he built around it, rather slickly labeled a "passionate dark comedy" by the Boston Shakespeare Company for their well-oiled production. Critics have typically been more cautious, calling it a "problem play," but that doesn't answer anything. Say it's a play with comic form but tragic content, if you must...
...trip to Cuba, Dominguez works out of his office at the Center for International Affairs. It is filled with a wall-and-a-half of books and journals on Latin American politics--but the wall above his desk is reserved for a poster of Lucy, the character from the comic strip "Peanuts," shouting, "Vote for the blockhead of your choice...
...expert toting around a suitcase full of devilishly clever explosive devices, does do his best to compensate for a cardboard part with another of his amusingly off-center performances. Shaw is hearty, as was his custom in recent times, but Ford, bereft of the kind of writing that made comic capital of his essential sullenness in Star Wars, makes one of the gloomiest central figures in the history of adventure films. Richard Kiel, the giant steel-fanged heavy of The Spy Who Loved Me, beats on many people, including Barbara Bach, who will be remembered from the same James Bond...
Garry Trudeau, cartoonist, describing Elizabeth Taylor in his comic strip Doonesbury: "A tad overweight, but with violet eyes...
...committee has other choices, and most of them seem to follow the traditional pattern. Last year saloon-keeper and comic Rodney Dangerfield spoke at Class Day, and this year's committee has a slew of comedians and other entertainment figures in mind if first choice Trudeau--a Yalie--declines to show...