Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Genevieve (Rank; Universal-International) comes under the heading of Very Special Jokes-even among the British, who made it. It may thus be assumed that the large U.S. movie public, which dislikes esoteric humor and is leary of many British brands, is not going to laugh itself hoarse at this one. But to some, e.g., the sort of people who understand that the passion for antiques is a bit silly but go on collecting them anyway. Genevieve will come as an irresistible little piece of comic bric-a-brac...
...College Football--The Reason Why" is one of the reasons why the current Lampoon is again a humor magazine. With exaggerated ex-football player language, the unsigned author rambles authoritatively, "Playing football makes a man a better football player, and hence a better American, and hence a better...
...turned-Gridder things that can be funny only at high school football banquets. And then there's "The Peanuts Myth" that uses the reductio ad absurd to no great advantage. This particular one involves nineteenth-century Ivy athletes playing football in motorized wheelchairs. Hindmost in the magazine and in humor is "Informality at Yale," an ironic title because John H. Limpert says that the Yale men "Gothic town" do not have much informality. An "Old College Song" sings sharply of social pressure at Yale, and is notable as the one poem in this Lampoon...
Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, butt of many a Washington wisecrack (e.g., "He should learn to keep a civil foot in his mouth"), showed last week that he has enough sense of humor to see a joke about himself. In a speech to the National Press Club, the former General Motors president told of a U.S. Senator who needed a new car. The Senator consulted a General Motors executive, who suggested getting a car with an automatic transmission. Said the Senator: "Well, maybe that would be all right, but when there is no clutch pedal, where...
Despite the stereophonic cooing of CinemaScope's newer, wider Marilyn Monroe, How to Marry a Millionaire ends up just another routine Techni-color movie. Substituting torsos for originality, Hollywood has swelled the female form up to unprecedented size without attempting to increase the script's humor proportionately...