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Word: humorous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aura of age in Actor Holbrook's manner heightens what is ageless in Mark Twain's humor. Lighting a cigar with a furious putt-putt-putt, Holbrook spaces the tagline of a tall story from an afterthought that howlingly tops it. His performance is as pungently authoritative as the smoke from Twain's omnipresent cigar-a cigar that Actor Holbrook flourishes like a wand over two hours of delightfully recaptured Americana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Performer | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...remaining characters are purely comic. The mayor's struggles to remain in command in this splintering world are given boisterous expression by Travis B. Linn; and Jacques C. Feuillan almost completely captures the poignancy inherent in the kindly Chaplain's humor, the humor of a man who thinks rather little but feels "a good deal," to whom legal matters are Greek "except, of course, that I understand Greek." And pillow-stuffed Julius Novick as Justice Tappercoom is witty and partly wise, eager for order but nonetheless good-humored...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: The Lady's Not For Burning | 4/17/1959 | See Source »

...morality of anti-morality ("I tell you evil is beautiful"). Judd becomes a kind of ignoble Hamlet, a boy of "superior intellect" ill-adapted to a slick world of Stutz-Bearcats, bootlegged gin, and flappers. Artie, who dares him on, commands less sympathy, but lends a certain amount of humor in his badgering of the police and elaborately contrived lying...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Compulsion | 4/15/1959 | See Source »

...defense attorney, Orson Welles manages to combine physical impressiveness with a Lincolnesque humor and humanity. "What do you plan to do about those burning crosses on your lawn?" ask the reporters...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Compulsion | 4/15/1959 | See Source »

Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. The humor and passion of a middle-aged teacher, in a major literary creation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

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