Word: humorousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK COMEDY is not a play about civil rights or a comedy of black humor. Its tale of what happened when the lights went out is as unsubtle and vaudevillian as a slip on a banana peel or a pie in the face-and just as much...
MADE IN ITALY. Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi and Catherine Spaak are among the stars of this mosaic of modern Italy that blends humor, irony and pathos...
...Your otherwise commendable coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict was marred by the insertion of an unfunny and utterly tasteless collection of American-Jewish humor under the title "Blintzkrieg" [June 16]. "Witticisms," Voltaire once said, "do not accord with massacres...
Director Robert Aldrich (Flight of the Phoenix) gets convincingly raw, tough performances in even the smallest roles. Marvin comes off best with his customary abrasive humor, but he is given strong support, especially by Cassavetes and Brown, the retired Cleveland fullback who seems to be running toward a promising new career. Thanks to them, The Dirty Dozen proves that Hollywood does best by World War II when it does it straight...
...Yale. An eleventh-generation descendant of a Mayflower immigrant, he is every inch the patrician who enjoys academic ceremony. At the same time, says one friend, Brewster "holds a fundamental irreverence for anything stuffy, too old or established" -and delights close friends at dinner parties with his self-depreciating humor and talent for mimicry. Actually a loner who carefully guards his deepest feelings, Brewster is also gregarious enough to pre-empt center stage at bourbon-and-bull sessions with Yale's faculty and students. An ear-wearying public speaker whose official utterances are frequently pedantic and dull, Brewster shines...