Word: drollness
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...injected a few droll jokes: an Iran Air airport bus disgorges three terrorists and some American hostages; a nurse takes her patient's temperature with a long oil dip stick. With its throwaway references to E.T., Ronald Reagan, TV anchormen and movies that have not even been released yet, Airplane II might deserve a place in a time capsule of pop culture circa 1982. Pia Zadora is already in there waiting...
...party candidate, but is religious conviction necessary in a President? Certified historians and political scientists shy from such an embarrassing "value judgment." But the voters know they would not want a nonbeliever President, and their instinct is correct. It has been settled that a Catholic can be President. The droll Bob Strauss goes about asking whether the country is grownup enough for "a Texas...
DIED. Jacques Tati, 75, whimsical French film maker, forever associated with his gangly, amiable and bewildered persona Monsieur Hulot; of a lung blood clot. A droll mime, Tati made films (Mr. Hulot's Holiday, 1954; the Oscar-winning Mon Onde, 1958; four others) that were meticulously wrought explosions of philosophical slapstick with little dialogue and less plot, suggesting that modern values are topsy-turvy. Said he: "What I am trying to prove is that at bottom everyone is amusing...
Colleagues remember Brodie for the number of his activities and droll sense of humor. "He packed enough in for two lifetimes, "MIsch said, adding that Brodie brought perspective to his work in psychiatry, a field "notoriously, lacking in common sense...
Eliot had his own jazzy barroom tempos. All is not gloom in The Waste Land, where the line "O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag" occurs. As the droll parade of people-cats pads by in Cats, it forms an anthropomorphical rag. Terrence V. Mann makes Rum Turn Tugger a prototype for an arrogant rock star. As Skimbleshanks, Reed Jones is endearingly batty about trains. An impromptu choo-choo is assembled on the spot out of large wheels, a lampshade and a teapot, which delights him and the audience equally...