Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...term President. Carter's aides insist that he feels neither panic nor despair, that he is simply determined to pursue his policies more effectively and energetically than before, believing that sooner or later this will pay off. The President still has his sense of humor, more of one than he is generally credited with, as well as his sense of purpose, or so it is said. As Jody Powell sums it up, 'He'll have to stand or fall on what he's really like. He's got his particular style of operating, of leadership...
Deathtrap. Like a boa constrictor, this murder mystery coils lethally around its characters. Marinating menace with a lunatic humor, John Wood, a superb actor, can make a playgoer die laughing...
...play is laid in a spacious kitchen (handsomely designed by John Lee Beatty), part of the Stewarts' vacation home off the Connecticut coast, during a storm one September afternoon. The author's symbolistic handling of the hurricane and its eye is heavy-handed, and some of the interpolated humor falls flat. But she has managed to come up with some strong verbal images, and one remarkable long speech about a neurosurgeon's discovery of a worm in the brain...
...Lenny was more af a crusader, I'm in a safer era for what I'm doing as well. Lenny was making a point for its own sake, and his humor was the vehicle for that. I am a humorist, and this exploration of words is my vehicle for arriving at my irony...
...Repression is always around the corner in America, it's always in the air, but I feel free..." He catches his words just as they leave his mouth and with the sense of humor and perspective that may be his saving grace, adds, "Well, you know what they say--'We are made to feel free by exercising a series of meaningless choices." He sighs. "And I seem to be thriving...