Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Regardless of big attendance, Manager Tommy Lasorda, whose office walls are hung with pictures of such pals as Frank Sinatra and Comedian Don Rickles, sees no humor in being in a virtual tie for first place. Without the early season injuries, which are now mostly behind them, he feels sure the Dodgers would be soaring. Mildly but logically, Lasorda points to the fact: "You can't have two out of eight starters out and not be hurt...
Their specialty is surprise, and they delight in what might be called ambush humor: make them laugh when they least expect it. In one skit, Suzanne, a very leggy blonde, sits down at a bar and orders a gimlet. Monty, pretending he is gay, persuades her that he is now ready to try women, all but writing a sonnet to the female sex. Finally she gives in. "You should try a woman," she says. "In fact," she adds before rushing away, "I'm going to do the same thing...
...great onstage?' " says Suzanne. " 'We make each other laugh so.' " They started working "semisteadily," as they put it, two years ago, and this year became a permanent team, ampersand and all. Audiences are now joining in their laughter. That kind of light humor called improvisation, which died out in the dark days of the late '60s, is back, as welcome as ever...
...looking at the fuming steel flow of jammed traffic that inched downtown. When spectators walked up for a look at his canvas, they found that he was placidly painting a quiet meadow with a stream running through it. The man admirably embodied certain crucial New York survival traits: exhibitionism, humor, and possible derangement...
Finally, the humor of one nation is not necessarily funny to the folk of a very different country. True, Americans have always been suckers for British humor, but there's a common cultural bond there; that bond is much weaker with regard to Italy. It is a strange and deeply troubled nation, small wonder then that its filmmakers should present such a dark vision. But while that vision might, possibly--just maybe--have some social significance, the flaws that pervade Viva Italia! make it hardly worthwhile, save for the hardiest Italophile. No one needs to offended, bored, and bewildered...