Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story taken from Oscar Wilde's "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" is the best by far. Its success is due to a good plot, some humor in the script, and the presence of pros like Edward G. Robinson, Thomas Mitchell, and C. Aubrey Smith. The brief scene in which the latter extolls the beauty of death while Robinson decides to murder him is a delightful mixture of the macabre and the amusing. But even Robinson, as a man compelled to realize the prophecy of a palmist who sees murder in his hand, gets tiresome in interminable chats with his inner...
Borge's format is simple. Looking like a drunken Viking, he announces his numbers, then plays the piano; for two and a half hours, the audience doesn't stop laughing. Nothing could be duller than trying to analyze his humor-he has perfect timing, taste, and talent, and that is enough...
...quibble with Borge's performance is his references to Denmark's recent scientific contribution. Borge's is a highly specialized humor and allusions to Copenhagen's celebrity are not within his bounds. But for Borge's symphony of comic perfection, he can certainly be forgiven this minor false note...
...group of Americans. He has seen the white man at his worst, and he might have turned cynically against the white man's faith and values. But he has not. The Negro does feel bitter about his lot. But it is a bitterness greatly modified by hope, patience and humor. Negro intellectuals occasionally talk "African nationalism." But the majority of U.S. Negroes feel no more kinship to the Kikuyu of Kenya than to the man in the moon. They want to be, above all, Americans...
Though he eats her cooking daily, Herbert is convinced that his wife has been dead for 17 years, and pays her no notice except for her weekly resurrection at séances. His mousy womenfolk humor him and blame it all on a lorry smashup. The drone of an airplane sends him into whimpering hysterics. Even more trying to plain-as-rain Grace is her loony father's mirking assumption that mild Mr. Holme, the staid widower and pensioned policeman who lives down the street, is an "old bull" bent on seducing...