Word: humor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ultimate Aloneness. Last week Manhattan's Staempfli Gallery opened an exhibition of Delvaux paintings, each of which casts a spell completely independent of sexual connotation. What at first might look like salacious humor turns out to be powerfully suggestive in a wholly different way. In Nocturne (opposite), the viewer's eye sweeps past the two somnambulant nudes, is carried across a terrace that is as desolate as the moon, ends up on a lonely mountaintop that looms against an empty sky. In Delvaux's enigmatic world, a street can turn into a maze leading...
Into a jungle of impossible heroes, sick jokes, violence and crime sometimes known as the "funnies," he has brought the delightful humor of children...
Irma La Douce is no animated French postcard; its sexiness is played for belly laughs, not snickers. By pruning the script of prurience, Wilder and Diamond have managed to treat the sale of sex with vulgar good humor. Irma has no moral, of course; yet as an essay on virtue v. venery, it is as uplifting as a graduation address-and ten times funnier...
Some of the comic baggage is incomprehensibly tasteless. British bathroom humor, some of it-abetted by dentiperforate Terry-Thomas, who skulks about as a spy-is overdone drollery. The rocket that the duchy launches in full ivew of an invited delegation of U.S., British and Russian diplomats has a fringed curtain at a stained-glass window, and carries a hot water bottle, a teapot, a cage of live chickens, a ukulele and a selection of good wines. When Grand Fenwick's spacemen get to the moon just ahead of the Americans and Russians, they plant their flag, turn...
Consider a casual viewer tuning in The Dick Van Dyke Show. He has heard that it's pretty funny. After all, it has just won three Emmy awards as the funniest, best-written and best-directed humor show on television. He knows from just general absorption that Van Dyke plays a gag writer married to a delicious-looking girl played by Mary Tyler Moore. Van Dyke and Moore are arriving at a literary cocktail party. "Do you want to duck out right now," says he to her, "and take in a movie?" The laughter that follows this line...