Word: funnier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mother's Kisses is an even funnier book than Stern, Friedman's highly praised first novel, but it is somewhat less well organized and smaller in scope. And it is partly a product of cannibalization-several long sections are based on earlier short stories-raising a question of Friedman's ability to break new ground. His Stern was fresh, vigorous and unsettling. A Mother's Kisses fully merits only the two latter adjectives. But few other current novels can claim as much...
THAT MAN FROM RIO. Fighting off mad scientists, crocodiles and poisoned darts, Belmondo strikes again in Director de Broca's faster-and even funnier-spoof of Hollywood action melodramas...
THAT MAN FROM RIO. Fighting off mad scientists, crocodiles and poisoned darts, Belmondo strikes again in Director de Broca's faster-and even funnier-spoof of Hollywood action melodramas...
BILLY LIAR. Working-class life in Britain inspires a social cipher (Tom Courtenay) to imagine a faster, funnier world where his own word...
...when you saw Beyond the Fringe in New York, preserve the memory. Better yet, drop down to the Loeb some afternoon where any number of drama wonks have memorized the record and are ever sniffing about for a fresh audience. Hams they may be, but they do it quieter, funnier, and better than the road cast at the Wilbur...