Word: humorousness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their surface similarities, the two men are markedly different. Kennedy is coldly pragmatic, Lindsay stubbornly principled. Where Kennedy has a sharper wit, the mayor has an easier humor. While Lindsay is taller and undeniably handsomer, Bobby has The Name. Though both wear an affluent air and came into family money-an immense advantage for a man with political ambitions-neither is hurt by the aura of wealth. Indeed, it is a peculiarity of American political reporting that only self-made men are generally labeled "rich." (Actually, Lindsay's total $140,000 inheritance is exceeded by the annual return alone...
...passel of lil ole psychopathic dimwits seems to have been spawned in a high-rent district of Tobacco Road. When Pappy Ingles, the hard-drinkin', ruttin' hero, tries to kill hisself by knocking his punkin haid against the marble top off'n a dresser, the humor turns as purplish black as a ripe fox grape. Trouble is, the author is danged serious...
...Murphy, as Chairman of the Memory Cells of the machine, stumbled onstage supported by a wobbly staff to deliver a glaze-eyed listing of the foibles of Eastern men's schools (this number is a feature of the Junior Show which usually has the same level of tradition and humor to it as the Hasty Pudding's kick-line...
...least the two that I've seen), share something with Leonard's creation, through all their extraneous shenanigans. Their plots about young men against the system always turn a little serious at the end. The shows, with their slightly insecure voices, come out for feeling and beauty and humor and against coldness, arrogance and society's silly demands. And that, too, is beautiful...
...impromptu question-answer period. Well, the press and public don't ask very intelligent questions these days, so the results were limited at best. We learned, for instance, that Agnes Varda, directress of "Le Bonheur" and "Les Creatures," is a very clever woman with a wicked sense of humor, but we hardly learned whether Agnes Varda has anything to say about film-making...