Word: humor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DUNDEE takes a comic turn as the film leaves Australia for the wilds of New York, where Susan has brought Mick for a visit. She shows him the best the city has to offer: cabbies, muggings, pimps and pretentious Italian restaurants, and he approaches every new experince with optimism, humor and clever tricks from the outback...
Banks and his actors are extremely intent on achieving a sense of unreality, an abstraction of performance, but they convey little of the direct humor and liveliness in Mishima's text...
Last week's crowd, which numbered nearly 2,500, was gathered for the Gerald R. Ford Museum's Humor and the Presidency Symposium in Grand Rapids, likened by Comedian Pat Paulsen to the "Ayatullah Khomeini Symposium on the Sexual Revolution." The convocation, which included a comedy show and a banquet, marks the fifth anniversary of the museum where the Ford Administration's documents are stored -- "in a Dixie cup," according to Paulsen. "It's very exciting here," he said, "if you happen to be a monk." Among those joining the three days of discussions and routines: Art Buchwald, Robert Klein...
Gerald Warren, who was deputy press secretary during a particularly rancorous era, told the seminar, "It's an understatement to say there was very little humor in the Nixon White House, and much of what there was was inadvertent." For example: Nixon's comments to reporters at the Great Wall of China ("It's truly a great wall"), to a motorcycle policeman who had just broken his arm and leg in an accident at the head of a presidential motorcade ("How do you like your job?"), to French dignitaries gathered for the & funeral of Charles de Gaulle...
...consensus at the symposium: self-deprecating humor is a President's best friend and weapon. "The chance to be seen as a warm, relaxed human being with a twinkle-in-the-eye approach to himself is just too good an opportunity to miss," said Bob Orben, a leading gag writer and author of many of Ford's best lines. "Humor reaches out, puts a warm, affectionate arm around an audience and says, 'I am one of you. I understand you.' If you can laugh together, you can vote together...