Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such low-altitude flights of humor and fancy would not qualify Travolta to bus dishes at the Algonquin Round Table. That may be the way he wants it. Part of Travolta's success has been sticking close to what he knows and where he comes from...
...like Hugh Leonard can be uncommonly rewarding. Da, now at Manhattan's Hudson. Guild Theater, means dad. The play is a fencing match with the ghosts of the past. The blood drawn is palpably human, the wit, parried and thrust, strikes sparks of continuous and sometimes quite unexpected humor. Says the father in Da of his late wife: "She died an Irishwoman's death-drinking tea." The laughs crop up like that, not as explosions but implosions, deeply rooted in character and race...
...answer, of course, is that earnest dignity and accomplishment are not very funny, unless they are mocked. TV humor, whether the players are black or white, now turns mostly on chaotic exaggeration, a great deal of it emanating from the workshop and social conscience of Producer Norman Lear. His Archie Bunker, after all, is a kind of blue-collar, honky George Jefferson, his whooping racial slurs rendered cute by being malapropped...
...Your Hand? Or that their largest American concert is held at New York's Che Stadium, not Shea Stadium? Is it a howl that John and Yoko (here named Ron and Chastity) hold their famous antiwar press conference in a bathtub rather than a bed? This is not humor; it's just British undergraduate silliness...
...winds, timpani and strings, and its transparent orchestration and rapid, exposed passage work require a great deal of precision and technical skill. The orchestra maintained its accuracy while capturing Prokofieff's mischievous spirit; indeed, the musicians' dexterity seemed to increase as they became more inebriated with the wit and humor of the composer. During the rambunctious Finale, with its amazingly rapid flurries of notes, both the precise control of Wilkins's conducting and the breathless exhilaration of his musicians were very much in evidence, and the orchestra romped down to the final chords with both Prokofieff's neoclassical polish...