Word: comics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...football field he fakes injury, mostly to draw the sympathetic cheers of the crowd. In the school play he insists on proving that there are no small parts, only small actors, thereby disrupting the show by turning a bit role in a tragedy into a major comic turn. On a date, he insists on loudly crooning Getting to Know You into the ear of his companion-in a crowded, stuffy restaurant...
...short, Andy Schmidt is a showoff, a permanent elbow in the eye of polite society. One can only be awed by the comic daring of everyone concerned with The One and Only for trying to make such a character appealing for the length of a movie. The One and Only does not quite make it, because even as portrayed by the likable Henry Winkler, Andy is finally a tiresome fellow. But the effort is a game one, and there is a certain originality about the fate that the film works out for Andy. Having failed as an actor...
...living legend, including consent to an interview. He fears that interviewers would be mainly concerned with odd experiences that he has had during his career as a proctor, and stories about funny things that happen in exams ignore what is really humorous about them. "I am the comic element in these exams," he explains. Some day he will reveal all, Edwards says, but in the meantime, he wants to remain an enigma...
...raunchy comic relief there is Lavra (Lillian Evans), the self-styled former "playgirl of Moscow" from whom a few generous swigs of vodka can elicit a tipsy ode to the joys of sex. Her opposite number is prim, spartan Iva (Lenore Har ris), a dance-exercise buff who seems to revel in single blessedness until, in a passionate and poignant outburst, she reveals its lonely curse...
Dwight's batty (and ultimately avenging) old aunt does several nice comic turns in the novel, once commiserating with her nephew on the curse of having been born an Aldrich: "That made you the inher itor of a long-established tradition of rascalry, thievery, sexual perversion, treason, sedition, blasphemy and apparently, in my case, gratuitous witchcraft." There are, preposterously, several Mohawk Indians involved in the plot, one of whom is named Sybaritic Hawk. Student demonstrations of the late '60s, ecological struggles, communes, civil rights trials, street life among urban porn establish ments, all have been dragged, entertainingly, into...