Word: humorousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK COMEDY is not, as its title suggests, a play about civil rights or a comedy of black humor. It is as unsubtle and vaudevillian as a slip on a banana peel or a pie in the face-and just as much...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Playwright Neil Simon has adapted his boffo Broadway comedy to the screen with no loss of humor, largely owing to the retention of Original Cast Members Robert Redford and Mildred Natwick and the canny addition of Jane Fonda...
MADE IN ITALY. Anna Magnani, Alberto Sordi, Virna Lisi and Catherine Spaak are among the stars of this mosaic of modern Italy that blends humor, irony and pathos...
...theme of a commencement address delivered by Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan, a trustee of New York University, to N.Y.U.'s graduating class. It is not, Donovan admitted, an easy subject to master: "All it takes is courage, honesty, self-respect, grace-and sometimes a sense of humor helps...
...thumb-time hitchhiker and full-time vagabond. Known only as Alan, he sleeps on strange streets and familiar beds, wandering from woman to woman, ending all his relationships with an easygoing "Ciao, baby." Except for that, he has little to say, and less to laugh about. His idea of humor is to retell the ancient jape of the man who asked his mistress, "Do you smoke after?", and received the answer, "I don't know. I'll look next time." Alan, whose ordinariness is well portrayed by Off-Broadway Veteran John Tracy, meanders from Manhattan's Lincoln...