Word: grandpas
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Italy's Giorgio de Chirico is the grandpa of a lot of enigmatic modern painting. His empty squares, staring arcades and twisted mannikins have become the common stage properties of surrealism. But De Chirico himself long ago abandoned surrealism for candy-box neoclassicism. So when Turin's Fiat motor corporation wanted to celebrate its golden anniversary, De Chirico seemed just the man to help out with a portrait of the 1950 Fiat...
...fight was noisy as a tenement row, and sometimes as unseemly. But when the shouting subsided in Pennsylvania last week, the liberal wing of the Republican Party, led by Republican Governor James Duff, was on top. It had trounced old (87) Joe Grundy, the foxy political grandpa who for almost 30 years had run the state's Republican Party on the principle that what was good for big business was good for the people...
...best caricature of all is the king of the realm, whose handsome young son finally marries Cinderella. Fierce one moment and lovable the next, the king is the perfect foxy-grandpa type. He badgers his poor yes-man Duke, whose best efforts to please the king are never good enough. The slapstick scenes between these two are hilarious...
...those rather too French concoctions that act as though Gallic were derived from gal, The Happy Time fetches its laughs from souvenir garters, stolen nighties, La Vie Parisienne, grandpa's amorous exertions that require medical aid, grandson's amorous speculations that require parental talks. Lest any of this seem unduly coarse, the characters are made wacky or lovable as well as lecherous, and the story is sprayed with period allusions and pidgin French...
...Produced as a straight play in Dublin and London, it caught the fancy of Burgess Meredith, who thought it would be the better for music. With both music and Meredith, it lasted for three performances. Meredith first plays Larry, a reminiscing tailor, then the grandfather that Larry reminisces about. Grandpa was murdered by his wife's lover, then the lover was murdered, then grandpa came briskly back to life, then his wife fell down dead, then he married a gay widow. Written mostly in doggerel, Happy As Larry deals mostly with sex. There are also snatches of nice music...