Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business, when who should come along, astride a motor scooter, but Argentina's ex-Dictator Juan Perón, also on the lam. According to Batista, they chatted about no counterrevolutions, just the weather and other pleasantries. Observed Batista: "Perón has got a good sense of humor and he was very friendly...
...cage. Finally the upstaged crooks trussed up all four in plastic clothesline and departed in Poet Engle's clothing and his station wagon. The Engles quickly freed themselves, and both fugitives were rounded up next day. Complained their involuntary host: "They were completely devoid of a sense of humor." But Poet Engle, far from humorless, is now, according to his friends, perfectly situated to write a farce version of The Desperate Hours, presumably with some very realistic Ransom of Red Chief overtones...
Eric Portman makes an excellent Captain Hook, thought one might wish that he occasionally played with more bravado, since the humor in this role is so meaty and the character is reminiscent of Malvolio in Twelfth Night. (The scene on the Pirate Ship, where Hook is duped by Peter and the orphan children is particularly reminiscent of the Garden Scene where Malvolio is duped by Sir Toby and his cohorts.) Mr. Portman, nevertheless, brings his own special qualities to the role...
...Dream at Stratford last summer; but since he has considerably more to say as Smee, the concept is considerably enlarged. The shaky voice, the doddering walk, the tongue whipping from cheek to cheek--all contribute to definitive Smee. It is impossible to conceive of any one extracting more humor from this role...
Obsessive Questions. Nixon started off pleasantly by ad-libbing an apology for pre-empting the time of a popular humor program, went on to tell his listeners about his "impressions of this country and its people." He praised the "beauty and culture of Leningrad," the "inspiring pioneer spirit of Novosibirsk," the "magnificent ballets," the "drive for progress." He had been struck, he said, by the Soviet people's "capacity for hard work, their vitality, their intense desire to improve their...