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If one must spend the better part of two hours following the adventures of a bird, far better that the hero be Daffy Duck than Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bird Droppings | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

The run-through of that play with in the play gives Molnar's own a rousingly hilarious third act, call it tipsy Pirandello. He gets a very able assist from the daffy humor of P.G. Wodehouse's adaptation. Earlier on, The Play's the Thing is not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Tipsy Pirandello | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

Playgoers in a silly mood will probably find this daffy production highly diverting. Others will not. British and European audiences made El Coca-Cola Grande something of a cult, and if there is anything that off-Broadway loves, it is a cult; the show will doubtless have its U.S. devotees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Chiquitas Bananas | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

The source of the somewhat dispirited fun is Allen's play of the same title: standard long-running Broadway stuff about the romantic tribulations of daffy film critic Allan Felix (Allen), whose wife (Susan Anspach) has just left him. Felix also worries a lot about his sex life, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Advice to the Loveworn | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

When Chaucer's earthy Wife of Bath made that ill-veiled threat, literature was still largely in the hands not only of men but monks. It was more than four centuries before women in any numbers began to write fiction; but almost as soon as they did, it was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Irate Accent | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

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