Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three actors have chosen to interpret their parts as grimly as possible. Mark Bramhall is appropriately bitter and cynical as Giovanni, but his interpretation leaves out the third dimension of grotesque humor the character should have. Elise Sweet (Francesca) and Joel Martin (Paolo) perform competently; Miss Sweet especially brings fierce intensity to her role...
...still go out in currachs, their ancient coracles, and never learn to swim because they know death takes longer if they do. Ireland has in abundance the qualities that often seem to be dis appearing elsewhere: kindliness, an unruly individualism, lack of snobbery, ease, style and, above all, sly humor. Though the Irish have lived much of their lives with bloodshed and privation, their tales of the bad times are recounted with as little rancor as if they were retelling the saga of Lugh of the Long Arm and the time he slew Balor of the Evil Eye with...
...U.S.A. Says Satirist Freberg, who earns about $500,000 a year by gently kidding his employers' products: "They wanted me to try to sell Christianity, actually, and I said I thought we would reach more people if we narrowed it down to God." Freberg decided that blending humor and heaven was a real challenge-"and I always rise to challenges. I don't take on any client unless he has a problem." He has just completed three 60-second radio spots, which the Presbyterians will start testing in the Midwest this summer. The commercials cost $12,000 -about...
...Everhart's Archbishop of Canterbury does not seem religious (properly so, perhaps), but he injects a wonderful bit of humor into his long sophistry over the "Salique law" by following each occurrence of the word "daughter" with a "hmm?" Lester Rawlins makes a rich and colorful figure of the valorous Welsh captain Fluellen...
Yglesias has nothing more profound to exhibit than his sensitivity for familial relationships-full of humor and bathos and love. The old sisters yak-yak away like a Greek chorus about their lives, their children and their hopes. "Let us not dig up old regrets," Dolores tells her sisters just before little Jimmy's wake begins. "There are too many of them, and we shall end up fighting for the biggest share. Let us remind ourselves of all the wonderful things in life, for in a moment we shall have to go inside and look into his face...