Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that believed so deeply when Ike said it was happy, and the nation that since developed out of that same era of uneasy, deluded simplicity. The narrative wanders, like Ellello*u, through a landscape of desolate beauty and frightening foreshadowings, and finally comes back to a world of bittersweet humor and fantastic conclusions. The American of the '50s, reborn in Africa, greets Ellello*u as he emerges from the desert, and each calls the other a sham. Each is right...
...screenplay by Henry Miller. Imagine-well, what's the point? There really isn't any way to anticipate the special charms of Get Out Your Handkerchiefs. This rhapsodic French comedy about men, women and sex is an honest-to-God original with its own challenging brands of humor, style and wisdom. It is the first revolutionary film to come out of France since the decline of the New Wave in the late...
Hookers, happy or otherwise, do not necessarily lack the puritan virtues of hard work, thrift and capital accumulation. Nevertheless, Lasch, a history professor at Rochester University, legitimately finds cracks of doom in our sanguinity. His thunderings shrivel our "ironic detachment," his term for a sense of humor...
...Class Day Speaker Jerry van Dyke urges graduating members of the Class of '79 "do whatever you want to do as long you don't lose your sense of humor." Van Dyke--a last-minute stand-in for Leon Spinks, who misses the ceremony because of what his manager calls "transportational and chemical difficulties"--tells the Class the "I'm so hungry, I haven't had a bite in weeks." He is rushed to Stillman Infirmary after being bitten by Dean Rosovsky...
Buried Child. Sam Shepard's saga of primal fears and lusts is shot through with sunbursts of surreal humor. As the dying patriarch, Richard Hamilton casts the blistered shadow of Lear on a blasted prairie heath...