Word: funnier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...zaniest play he wrote is now on view off Broadway. What the Butler Saw is basically a Feydeauan farce. Like the great French playwright, Orton recognized that a closed door is funnier, and maybe even more erotic, than an open bed. Orton, like Feydeau, understood that logic carried to its logical conclusion is madness...
...there was a great deal of projection. My problems were less complex in those days. There was a lot of me trying to find myself as a writer-a terrible identity crisis. Most of the early plays were very dense and very terrible. But the ones before that were funnier...
...MacDermott) and lyrics (by Gerome Ragni and James Rado) as to the staging. While the songs are definitely of a now-dated rock genre, there is no denying that many of them are great theatre pieces. The comedy numbers (a Supremes satire called "White Boys." "Initials," "Sodomy") are far funnier than anything in the book (written by the co-lyricists). And some of the more romantic songs are sweet in the best sense of the word: Claude sings when we meet him, "I believe in God / And I believe that God / Believes in Claude / That...
...large flaws seem unimportant. But the big novel loosened Bellow's collar. His next important outburst was Henderson the Rain King (1959). He could not work twice the trick of making literary shapelessness a virtue. And he managed an enormous feat in leading the new novel -wilder and funnier than Augie March -toward resolution. It was one thing to leave young Augie, grinning and scratching his head at the end of the novel. But Henderson, the Yankee millionaire who charges off to Africa in a frenzy of exasperation and despair, is 55 years old. He has asked...
...speech in Washington since he left three years ago, and one thing that had not changed was his sense of humor. The former Press Secretary to L.B.J. is now on the other side of the fence as publisher of Long Island's Newsday. The view, if anything, seems funnier...