Word: drollness
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...BAGS FULL, by Jerome Chodorov. Writ ten in mock-Edwardian, directed like a six-day bike race, this adapted French farce is irresistibly droll, thanks chiefly to that dour master of ludicrous mayhem, Paul Ford...
...perpetual mourning; he can bat out a laugh by not batting an eye. His body is always on the point of settling, like a house. His mind works like a stopped clock, and the time is half-past McKinley. Indeed, part of what makes him so phenomenally droll is the sense that three or four entire generations have passed him by and left his features mottled in nonplused fury...
...even with a more responsive audience, problems will remain. George Rosen is always droll as Finian, a dotty old Irishman who has stolen a crock of leprechaun gold and buried it near Fort Knox, an area he believes conducive to spontaneous generations. Carolyn Firth, his ready, nubile, and willing daughter, is a pretty girl and a charming actress. But neither of them seems quite at home in a brogue; Rosen at times simply deserts Belfast for Brooklyn. And Miss Firth, for all the attractiveness of her voice, shares with many of the other singers a tendency toward inaudibility...
Where the Spies Are, true to formula, dares the challenge of trying to keep its tongue in James Bond's cheek. The setting is Beirut this time, and the man of the Are is David Niven, droll indeed as a middle-aged physician and reckless driver. Photoflash rings, trick fountain pens and the transistor in his lower left molar rather embarrass him. Bribed by British intelligence (running short of certified spies, understandably) with the promise of a Cord Le Baron, Niven flies off to run interference for an oil sheik whose assassination is pending. Among the double-dealers...
...Such droll, needling cartoons are not softened a bit by the text they illustrate. Week in, week out, Charles de Gaulle comes under irreverent attack in the French satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné (the Chained Duck...