Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Very good humor now, smiling at me, smiling aside at Bulganin, talking fast as if he had the answer ready. Laughs, looking at me. Snap, snap...
...comedy called The Big Heist, even such broad shoulders as Bert Lahr's cannot carry it as far as the corner saloon. Written with an eye on Damon Runyon and a finger in a dictionary of U.S. criminal argot, the play explored a quaint old vein of humor among thieves: Lahr, as a low man on the totem pole of crime, joined another aging juvenile delinquent (Fred Gwynne) to rob an armored car of $1,000,000 just to impress a lady (Mildred Natwick). Playing a sometime short-order cook whose sauces could give a hamburger that certain "jenny...
...Author Kerr listens for gags in the clatter of a typewriter. She has brought high spirits to her varied roles of playwright (King of Hearts), free-lance writer, TV guest, wife (of New York Herald Tribune Drama Critic Walter Kerr). Laboring in the literary hell's kitchen of humor, Author Kerr, 33, knows that one cannot make a comic omelet without laying a few eggs. She lays a few in Daisies, but mostly she cooks with laughing gas. On the menu...
Elizabeth Theiller provided the high point of the evening with her performance of Things Are Getting Curiouser and Curiouser. Her "Requiem for a flattened banana" exhibited an excellent sense of humor and some charming interpretive dancing...
...maze of greed that Threatens to trap her. Refusing her father's money, the young innocent rushes to her lover, who promptly walks out on her when he hears of her incredible folly in spurning a fortune. The book's prevailing color is grey; no touch of humor is added to lend palatability to its provincial harshness. The rewards lie in a firm, penetrating style, a relentless storyteller's determination to pursue the shabby impulses of humanity even if they lead to tragedy...