Word: drollness
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...COUPLE. Art Carney and Walter Matthau are wonderfully droll as two recently de-wived men. Neil Simon's lines and the wild comic touch of Director Mike Nichols keep the play on the brink of gleeful absurdity...
...Okefinokee Swamp -a cigar-chewing alligator, a bespectacled owl, a turtle sporting a derby-play with words, con one another, and offer the only trenchant political satire to be found in the comics today. In Johnny Hart's B.C., indolent cavemen, sharpshooting anteaters and terrified ants make droll comments on the modern world. In Mell Lazarus' Miss Peach, megacephalic, supersophisticated school tots show up their elders' ignorance. In Mort Walker's Beetle Bailey, a gawky, hapless buck private makes a hash of military life...
...Mike Nichols touch, always deft, daft and droll, flicks The Odd Couple along at a dervish's pace. But it is Neil Simon's comic freshness of vision that provides the inner momentum. Simon rarely tosses a line straight up in the air for an isolated gag; he hits it across a net of personal relationships so that a steady volley of wit builds up out of character and situation. Simon also knows how to prod a cliché off its bed of banality so that it walks toward the brink of logical absurdity. "Who'd send...
...This droll and sparkling book by Stuart Cloete (rhymes with snooty) adds considerable refinements to the lore of love, all the more surprising since Cloete, who has spent most of his life in South Africa, is noted for mammoth epics of wilderness treks and colonial wars. Somehow, while exploring the heart of darkness, he became interested in illuminating as well the hidden heart of womankind...
...Ball is a misaddressed musical mailbag. Buddy Hackett, a droll fellow of manic and mournful mien, should be readdressed to oldtime burlesque, where his earthy urbanisms could blue the air like cigar smoke. The frenetically agitated dances should be restored to the speeded-up silent film. The nondescript music should be sent back to recompose itself. The book has never left its natural state-pulp...