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...jokes. Even the few truly humorous shows-Get Smart!, The Dick Van Dyke Show-cannot fulfill the demand to be funny and original week after week. "It's not surprising," says S. J. Perelman, "that people who do weekly comedy shows on television are reduced to drivel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: AMERICAN HUMOR: Hardly a Laughing Matter | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

Critics had unanimously panned this season's TV fare for its consistent drivel, and so, surely a show with lines like "Stake out that art gallery like you would a circus tent!" will not go unnoticed. Commissioner O'Hara says, "I don't know who he is behind that mask of his, but I do know when we need him, and we need him now!" ABC's president must have said the same thing...

Author: By Stephen L. Cotler, | Title: Batman | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

Moving on to Nepal's embassy, Chen got even more excited. "Sheer drivel!" he cried when asked about U.S. demands that Communist guerrilla attacks in South Viet Nam be stopped. "There will be no peace in Indo-China," prophesied Chen, "so long as the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism hang on there." Later, Chen told a touring Swiss journalist: "The Chinese people will not stand idly by as North Viet Nam is attacked. China and North Viet Nam go together like teeth and lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: A Test for Tigers | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

...Given drivel which follows the plot of Laura right up to the outskirts of Fanny Hill, Director Gordon Douglas (Rio Conchos) makes surprisingly lively entertainment of it. Spirited performers also lend Sylvia a sorely needed touch of class, and Actress Baker schlumps through the role at a wry deadpan pace, obviously enjoying her buildup as Hollywood's sex queen pro tern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Coming Up Roses | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

...need critics of Jack O'Brian's caliber who see through the hokum and drivel of what passes for TV entertainment today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 4, 1964 | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

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