Word: humor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though the Cuban economy goes from bad to worse (this year's sugar crop may not equal last year's 3,800,000 tons, only half the pre-Castro harvest), Santiago restaurants were filled with food; bands played, and carnival crowds were on parade. In high good humor, Castro drove through the streets, chatted with local officials, even sidearmed a few baseballs to two of the reporters in a local stadium...
...were there. Accompanied by close to 50 brass bands, some 500 horses and at least two camels, they swarmed into Manhattan 150,000 strong, occupied 85 hotels and motor inns, added to the traffic jam, monopolized sidewalks, held seven-hour-long parades, and displayed a keen group sense of humor in a thousand hilarious ways, including occasionally entangling innocent natives in loops of invisible thread. They wore red fezzes, red and green floppy harem trousers, and embroidered jackets, and looked like wandering extras from The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. They were the respectable and respected members of the Ancient...
...humor of most lines in a play depends upon what the audience expects a character to say. Sometimes an actor can get a laugh by answering wittily and quickly, when the audience expects him to be mute. Much of Moth's humor in Love's Labor's Lost, for example, stems from the fact that he is not at all cowed by his impressive master, Armado. Another actor can get his laugh by taking longer than the audience to figure out a situation. The Clown's humor in The Winter's Tale works on this principle...
Call the President. The Avis ads have caught readers through their underdog appeal, their sly humor and their insouciant explanations of the traumas of being in second place. Tear up the Avis credit card "if Avis goofs," says one ad. Says another: "Our counters all have two sides. And we know which side our bread is buttered on." The campaign has also had an inside effect: Avis is trying harder. Before the first ad ran, executives of Avis and of its ad agency-Manhattan's bright, unorthodox Doyle Dane Bernbach-jointly lectured Avis employees in 300 cities to impress...
...turn for the worse. All the hospital hanky-panky is still there. All the droll British bit players. All the anatomical jokes, delivered by Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) and Sir Lancelot Spratt (James Robertson Justice), whose medicareers have provided them with a decade of job security. But the humor has grown progressively more frail, foolish and familiar. Nobody really cares when the adipose Sir Lancelot goes on a diet to win the love of his physiotherapist, and deep within the tissue of this feeble jest is what sounds like a cry for help. Clearly, the Doctors are begging...