Word: humor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barefoot in the Park. If wedding albums included the days after the honeymoon, there would be pictures of the ridiculous rather than the sublime. In this Neil Simon play, the period of adjustment for a love-and-poetry wife and her meat-and-potatoes husband sparks the humor. Aug. 28-Sept...
...example, the Beatleologists struck gold this spring when they found out that "Strawberry Fields Forever" was about a women's penitentiary in Liverpool named Strawberry Fields. Suddenly the title took on a suggestion of eternal imprisonment, and such lines as "nothing to get hung about" revealed a definite gallows humor...
...many senses. They feature Jewish characters. The conflict between the self-conscious piety of the older generation and the agnosticism and intermarriages of the younger often forms a subsidiary theme. And Roth tends toward the tone associated with everyone from Saul Bellow to his namesake Harry Roth--a wry humor which softens the portraits of even sharply satirized characters' perceptive details and realistic conversations...
...DORADO. John Wayne and Robert Mitchum get the most out of a script full of raudous frontier humor in this fist-come, fist-served western...
Died. Josh Bryan Lee, 75, Oklahoma Democratic Representative (1934-'36) and Senator ('36-'42), chiefly remembered as the state's most skillful spellbinder, with the single exception of Will Rogers, whose eulogy ("His humor . . . never bit like a wolf, but always like a lamb") he delivered at Rogers' funeral in 1935 and on the House floor; after a long illness; in Norman, Okla...