Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talent (which happens now about half the time and will no doubt happen more often when a large audience incites the cast to comedy) Carnival is riotous, though riotous gives you no sense of the tender and gentle emotions which overcome an audience shaking with laughter at Thurber's humor...
...intellectual content of Playboy is at least on a par with the pretentiously overstated content of a TIME Essay. The prurient appeal of an overripe foldout is no worse than the peekaboo enticement of gossip about "People." The humor of a Playboy cartoon is often more sophisticated than the cleverness of TIMEse...
...Black Humor & Dadaism. The literary pulse in Eastern Europe varies wildly from country to country, but the cracking of Communist theories and alliances has produced more relaxation almost everywhere. Instead of hacking about the glorious revolution, writers are turning to subjects that range from black humor to dadaism-and the regimes are increasingly helpless to stop the flow. For anyone who doubts the trend, the Czechoslovak Communist Writers' Union weekly Literárni Noviny (Literary News) last week completed the final installment of an eleven-part series. Its title: "God Is Not Completely Dead...
...film, Succeed often fails by seeming to run in place. Director David Swift has staged far too many of the numbers simply as people singing songs, with the camera standing by as an admiring observer. There is nowhere near enough sight humor to justify the billing "visual gags by [Cartoonist] Virgil Partch...
...played with. His friend, Novelist and Critic Leslie Fiedler, enthusiastically calls Earth "an existentialist comedian." The description is apt, for Earth is essentially a humorist who believes that it is absurdly comical to take anything too seriously, including himself. His books bubble with back-alley sexual humor that derides the solemnity of love. Earth's characters are never cast as heroes: there is something slightly ludicrous about them all. That is not new, but Earth sustains those characters with exceptional force and conviction, as if he were trying to enlarge the ludicrous to epic proportions. "Where the hell else...