Word: humored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Writer-director Clair uses this circular plot to create a series of situations which are not only broadly funny in themselves, but subtly satiric of modern phenomena like assembly lines, time clocks, and politicians. Emphasizing visual humor, A Nous La Liberte deflates these institutions swiftly and economically. And George Auric's musical score, which supplements and sometimes replaces the sparse dialogue, is as delightful as it is appropriate...
...thorough delight and will soon be brought to America. Clive Brook, as the Count, is a bestial huntsman converted by a miracle to equally vehement Christianity. He decides that his son must marry that humblest of all creatures, the town prostitute (played by Mai Zetterling). Without sacrificing any humor, the play deepens from farce to genuine reverence. Its unresolved conclusion, called by one London critic "seatty and sacreligious," is just the opposite, if there is an antonym for "seatty." The Count is mad; he is also touched...
...think the two best prose pieces in the issue are "The Angry Man" and "The Beau Monde of Mrs. Bridge." "The Angry Man," a first-published story by Donald Winks has an absorbing narrative; the author shows a fine sense of humor, and he avoids any heavy-handed thematic underscoring. It is not a polished story, nor is the plot, which concerns the effect of an enigmatic deckhand upon those around it's a very original one. But it is an even well-sustained piece of fiction. "The Beau Monde of Mrs. Bridge," by Evan S. Connell, is satire...
Wilson has not lost his weakness for production line humor. (Recent sample, commenting on a candidate for a Pentagon job: "His horsepower is too big for his flywheel.") But top career officers at the Pentagon who have seen four other Defense Secretaries come and go respect Wilson as a better administrator, production and financial man than any of his predecessors. They respect, too, the motives that brought him, at 62, to take the arduous Pentagon job. Since he sold his General Motors stock to qualify as Defense Secretary, Wilson's 39,470 shares, now in other hands, have gone...
...Roses nowhere skimps Bridget's plight, but it far from gloomily dwells on it. However valid, Bridget's seems a matinee or televised grief. And Playwright Sommer wants to have her ache and eat it, too. She stirs into the play a full cup of adolescent humor, a level teaspoonful of small-boy remarks, a lightly beaten offstage comedy husband and the juice of one uninhibited maid...