Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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POPI. The plight of the poor is told with humor and bite in this surprisingly successful comedy. Alan Arkin is magnificent as a Puerto Rican widower with three jobs, struggling to get his children out of a New York ghetto...
...limbs that curl and twist like those of a man old before his time, that it is virtually impossible to imagine anyone else in the part. What Lempert does best is comedy, and, though Zoditch is pathetic, Lempert makes him comic as well, capable of a certain sharp humor. These are exactly the qualities Zoditch needs in order to escape from becoming a parody...
Candy Farmer. Like so much of TV, Hee Haw is a show that nobody likes -except the viewers. Newspaper critics reacted as if it were good reason to pull the plug on rural electrification. CBS, with unaccustomed humor, is running promotion spots replaying the show's most outrageous vignettes, with a kicker: "The critics are unanimous about Hee Haw-but watch anyway...
...time examining the submerged bulk of past history. Besides her other gifts, Doris Lessing, is at all times, the lady novelist--and a good one, too. If her sentences sometimes seem too explicitly diagnostic in an effort to delineate complex emotions, she nonetheless never loses a dark, undercut ting humor. Her cynical view of society's absurdities is often quite brilliant, as when she describes...
...trials of courtship have always been natural subjects for film makers. Berri watches them without mockery or disdain. The result is a rare observation of the pathos and humor engendered by the rites...