Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...level, The Bright Lights relates the story of an actress who has never quite made it. Although she is a Tony-award winner, she is not a star: the average theater goer would not recognize her name--a fact Seldes herself realizes. Often, she evaluates her career with humor...
OLIVIER PRESERVES the classical rhythm, the curling-up pitch at the end of a line and the elongation of select syllables until they detonate, and he fuses all this with bravura good-humor. Compare this portrait to his massive, thick-featured, iron-rimmed Nazi dentist in the Marathon Man and you've good example of why people label this great man the most versatile actor who's ever lived. Olivier is on-screen more than anyone else in the The Boys from Brazil, and he hasn't had a movie role this large since Sleuth...
...hangman's rope, as reward for his many trans gressions against border town society and the upstanding folks of Longhorn, Texas. An ornery sort by nature, Moone greets the attending man of the cloth at the gallows with an irreverent "Go to hell." This kind of gutter humor holds the film together during the ensuing two hours, but there is little else in the movie to hold your attention for very long...
...need a pope who's a nice guy. Someone you can trust, with a good sense of humor. Peter Gomes is that kind of guy," Denis T. Kennedy '81, co-organizer of the Gomes For Pope Committee, said last week...
...loose, irreverent style, reflects this new vision. The militaristic, patriotic, aggressive, by-the-book Regular Army types who were virtually deified in traditional American war movies appear in M*A*S*H* as incompetent, cowardly, idiotic hypocrites. The romance and glory of war are gone, replaced by black humor--a psychological defense mechanism for coping with the brutality and insanity...