Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BOYS IN THE BAND. Playwright Mart Crowley's characters are first of all wonderfully human and secondarily, homosexual. Kenneth Nelson, Leonard Frey and Cliff Gorman lead a sharply honed cast through dialogue of lacerating wit and excruciating humor...
There are other kinds of humor-such as giving the actors makeup and music from the Mack Sennett era-and the whole conceit might have made a delightful short. Much too hour an is it of minutes...
...account of the scruffy San Francisco hippie subculture becomes all the more engrossing for the mingled feelings of anger, pain and horror that the entire experience caused her. Miss Didion suffers constantly, but compellingly and magically. With testiness, she reports on the vulgarity of Las Vegas weddings. With sad humor, she tells of a visit to Joan Baez's Institute for the Study of Nonviolence. With annoyance, she relates the legends surrounding Howard Hughes. With nostalgia, she describes a visit with John Wayne: how, as a round-eyed California schoolgirl, she yearned for some young man to promise...
MUZEEKA is a fable, contemporary in sensibility, modern in metaphor, and haunting in its humor. John Guare mixes whimsy and horror as his hero trips on the way to his destiny, lands first in the suburbs and finally in Viet...
Author Portis always streaks his Grand Guignol gore with the humor that is implicit in Mattie's character and situation, although sometimes he is guilty of playing it a bit too quaintsy. Mattie's prowess as a horse trader, for example, is overdrawn to the point where character rides off into caricature toward a last stand at the credibility gap. And he finds it necessary to pad his dangerously thin tale with an overlong excursion into Rooster's gun-cocking past...