Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WEDNESDAY. Sandy Dennis plays a kept doll with an unkempt sense of humor that leads to precious little sex but lots...
...engaging try. After a slow start, Bates as the charming man-on-the-make carries the film swiftly along, and Elliot's portrayal of down-at-the-heels gentility is deft and assured. Only the ungenerous will complain that the bite of satire loses out to the geniality of humor...
...said for the movie itself. Arrivisme and the stagnation of the English Establishment are pretty common themes these days, as in Room at the Top and Beyond the Fringe; combining the two would seem to promise a one-way ticket to banality. Yet brisk pacing and some bright humor manage to save Nothing...
...versatile repertory ranging from the mournful Anathea ("Judge, oh, Judge, spare my brother") to the wryly exaggerated Silver Dagger Song, she displayed occasional flashes of bitter humor ("This is a sort of 'Happy Birthday, Mississippi' song," she said, introducing Hey, Nelly Nelly). More important, she exhibited a fine facility for dramatic phrasing and a rich, bell-clear alto voice stronger than Joan Baez' and in some ways more interesting. Her ecstatic audience was not surprised, for Judy Collins only proved in Newport last week what her legions of album-buying fans have known for some time -that...
...also a grimly pathetic story: the racking hardships of LeBlanche's disaster-struck past and the haunting horror of his wife's death at the hands of his paranoid father, whom LeBlanche himself is forced to kill in turn. With this amalgam of somber tragedy and high humor, Author Cuomo probes an ancient and great theme: the growth of a man in the teeth of fortune's callous blows. Result: a variegated, sometimes unusual, always hearty novel...