Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cinemenace Hayakawa, who is up for a supporting-role Oscar for his work in Bridge on the River Kwai, performed eloquently in silence, let his craggy face show the nuances in the change from fear and hatred to humor and affection. Sea worked unnecessarily hard to make its point-misunderstanding breeds wars-because its airman, though well-played and fairly believable, was a simple-minded drugstore cowboy whose military indoctrination never seemed to have progressed beyond peeling potatoes...
...Rocks (humor): a stiff drink...
Added Reporter Jackson: "She has a delicious sense of humor and laughs readily. We all became very good friends, possibly because we all wore the same costume-blue tank suit and white terry-cloth robe...
...decade that has seen much of the fun leak out of the funnies, a Popsicleset Punchinello named Good Ol' Charlie Brown has endeared himself to millions of newspaper readers with a quietly wistful brand of humor that is both fresh and worldlywise. Supported by an all-moppet cast and a flop-eared dog named Snoopy, Charlie Brown is the moonfaced, star-crossed hero of the fast-rising Peanuts strip. Less than eight years old. the seven-days-a-week strip is carried by 355 U.S. dailies and some 40 foreign papers, and has overflowed into such profitable sidelines...
...very successful. It's very hard to say America stinks more than once; maybe, if you're good at stringing words together, you can say it twice. But if you want to fill a volume of poetry you have to start thinking about why America stinks. The humor of Patchen indicates a great deal of talent; one could wish he'd forget his sophomoric, tragically bombastic approach to America and look around for a while to find what makes it the way it is. Comedy is a thing that nobody will bother to argue; the damnation of the American cities...