Word: humored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such platitudes as "What you have just seen . . . [affects] the safety of our communities and the well-being of our homes and our families." He asked for preparation at home to guarantee "assurance that the American people are prepared to withstand any assault. "This," he added, with bitter, unconscious humor, "is no simple thing...
...Britain, politicians often treat newsmen in a standoffish manner that U.S. reporters have never tolerated at home. But last week British newsmen rebelled and, in high good humor, gave their politicians an American-style lesson in press relations. The issue: the news leaks on the meetings of the Labor Party and its National Executive Committee. Last month, when the party met in a closed session and barely (by a vote of 113 to 104) passed a resolution supporting the inclusion of Germany in Western defenses (TIME, March 8), the respected weekly London Observer (circ. 475,609) reported the meeting fully...
Because of its vaudevillian humor, the film needs ample scenery and enough action to keep from becoming drab. Instead, its producers confine themselves to an actual stage, and proudly advertise that the film is an exact replica of what was seen on Broadway. The sets are as scantily decked as the chorus girls and hardly as well made. This is a disadvantage doubly accented by a color process which brings out blues and greens, adding a blue bag to every eye and just a dash of purple to the lips. The effect is pretty macabre...
Against these obstacles Phil Silvers pits his jovial buffoonery. But his brash, rapid-fire humor entertains only in spurts, and then in the unsubtlest of ways. His best scene comes late in the picture, as he parodies a tenor at the burlesque while half-clad maidens stumble around in the background. No one else has much of a part, although some of vaudeville's oldest stand-bys have landed jobs in the supporting cast...
...achieving fame, she spends her savings to display her name, Gladys, Glover, on a four-story billboard in Columbus Circle. The ensuring difficulties confuse the other protagonists of the film while Gladys Glover remains blissfully unshaken. This unawareness, along with Glady's bewildered glances and unrestrained smiles make the humor of the film ample though Mr. Kanin's plot is thin...