Word: humor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Playwright Neil Simon has adapted his boffo Broadway comedy to the screen with no loss of humor, largely owing to the retention of Original-Cast Members Robert Redford and Mildred Natwick and the canny addition of Jane Fonda...
WHETHER in tribulation or triumph, the Jews over the centuries have learned to extract a laugh from almost any event. Last week, acting as the unofficial humor makers of America, they produced a rapid-fire chain of chutzpa-laced jokes about the Middle East conflict that flew as swiftly as a Jewish Superman (see cut). Their comic chronology...
...Humor was, after all, her basic form of dress and address. And humor passes through the most ephemeral of fashions. The concept of wit, the very word, today suggests a dated elegance. Gone is the vintage innocence, masquerading as chic, that Miss Dorothy Parker symbolized. Things are now laughed about that she would have found vulgar, if not downright indiscreet. Humor today is broad and black. Perhaps it is more human; it is certainly less artificial. Yet the suspicion mounts that behind the laughter of "alienation," there is a wide streak of sentimentality, too, just as there was behind...
...philosophically minded cockroach, symbols of the dual cultures of the 1920's and 30's, inhabit the strange world recreated in Kirkland House's archy and mehitabel. Richard Gottlieb's adaptation of the original series by Don Marquis, however, largely ignores the periods atmosphere in favor of the humor and occasional pathos of Marquis's animal characters. Add occasional music by Larry Johnson, and the result is a curious but thoroughly enjoyable mixture of comedy and fantasy...
Shenker interviewed Premier Levi Eshkol, whom he found sitting at his desk with his hand on a small Hebrew Bible. Shenker was particularly struck by his good humor. "How do I manage to keep my temper?" said the Premier in response to a question. "If I were in America, I would have a psychiatrist to explain it. Don't all Americans have psychiatrists?" Shenker also interviewed the new Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan, who showed him a treasury of archaeological finds he has unearthed himself. Shenker collects jokes much as Dayan collects ancient pottery, and he obtained at least...