Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. The earthy humor of Sholom Aleichem's tales is given a Broadway gloss in a musical that combines compassion and commercial appeal...
...championship, and the Spartans have not been to the Rose Bowl since 1956. Alumni have written Duffy poison pen letters (including one that was mailed in Detroit and addressed simply to "Duffy the Dope"), and students have naturally hanged him in effigy. Daugherty has taken it all with rare humor. "A football coach's main problem," he shrugs, "is that he is responsible to irresponsible people." He once confided to a newsman: "Look, I have a couple of big freshmen linemen preparing for a special job. At the end of the game, win or lose, they are going...
...eloquently as the gunfire or casualty lists, the G.I. gallows humor vented at the low point of Plei Me's siege last week, expressed the professionalism and grim resolve of the U.S. fighting man in Viet Nam. In the beleaguered camp, American soldiers weathered 178 hours of constant mortar and recoilless rifle barrage, fanatical assaults by wave on wave of mustard-uniformed North Vietnamese regulars, the endless thrum and thunder of close air support ("The Skyraiders looked like they were wired nose to tail," marveled one survivor), night after night in which land flares and blazing napalm turned...
Director Forbes occasionally indulges in fashionable camera trickery, such as freezing the action into a still shot at a critical moment, but King Rat scarcely needs that kind of help. There is sizzling intrigue in a diamond-peddling deal, corrosive humor in King's plan to breed rats and peddle their flesh as small jungle deer, a local delicacy ("For the luxury trade," he chortles, "brass only-majors and up!"). The film's most blistering episode concerns an anguished soldier's pet dog, condemned to death for killing a chicken. Later, the King invites his cronies...
...parks and warehouses, and he lives alone in a sloppy bachelor apartment. He shops with the masses in a supermarket, and he worries about the raise he's expecting. In this realistic setting, author Len Deighton places his fantastic jewel of a plot, and then polishes it with humor, blood, sex, and a little more bureaucratic realism...