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...world tour last week, George Romney once more referred to his brainwashing gaffe, declaring that his 1965 experience in Viet Nam has put him on his guard, just as a broken bone, once knitted, is "stronger at the break than at any other point." Before a single bonehead gag was born, Romney winged off to Paris, was ignored by De Gaulle, conferred with Foreign Minister Couve de Murville, and then gushed: "I am impressed by the good relationship between the people of France and the U.S. There is a great deal in common in the leadership, and the two governments...
There are some pretty snowscapes, though, shot in the Italian Dolomites. And there is one hilarious reprise of an old burlesque gag: girl in bed raises crucifix to thwart approaching snaggletooth, who merely chuckles. "Baby," he says in a richly Yiddish accent, "hev you ever got the wrong vempire...
...Sandwich, the hero of The Vale of Laughter, has his own way of saying it: "Well, a man's got to believe something, and I believe I'll have another drink." Joe is the sort who, for the sake of a gag and to be included in a rich uncle's will, names his son Hamilton. And to prove that the block is still for chipping, young Ham Sandwich at eight names a honky-tonk for the middle-aged "The Slipped Discotheque...
...behind the beetle-faced canvas and plastic masks, paratroopers, it is rumored, cried when they saw women carrying off screaming babies, 15-year-old boys vomiting on the side of the road, and girls clutching scarves to their faces so they wouldn't gag on the sandy...
Stage humor is in transition. The old humor of the gag and the wise crack was confident, benign, a pick-me-up rather than a putdown. The new humor, which draws its tone from play wrights such as Albee and Pinter, is cruel, taut-nerved, and speaks the lingo of the obscene and the absurd, not funny-ha-ha but funny-peculiar. The new humor reigns in off-Broadway's Scuba Duba, a flagellatingly funny first play by Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman (Stern, A Mother's Kisses...