Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...class mail, he replied: "It doesn't send me most of the time." Gronouski, it turned out, was just trying to be funny, but soon the Post Office Department was swamped with protests. Gronouski was taken into a huddle by his public relations adviser, and his sense of humor has now been stamped HANDLE WITH CARE...
...jokes are funny as the plot is bitter. The humor is broad ("Vat 69--that's the Pope's phone number"), there are lots of loud, funny songs, and people fly on and off the stage in the best slapstick tradition. You can't help laughing...
...West Coast actors transplanted to Broadway are trying to add histrionic vitality to Masters' historic importance. Charles Aidman, who staged the project, has linked related characters and interspersed the verse vignettes with folk songs. He and his fellow actors animate the characters with consummate skill and sly humor. But the overall effect is spasmodic and ineloquent. Whenever Masters tried to draw a lyrical breath, he was apt to exhale some inflatedly gassy lines. Bloated example...
...humor isn't always subtle, at least it makes you laugh. Grand Fenwick's prime minister, delivering a fireside chat, destroys his country's television network by sticking his finger through the camera. When the rocket is about to be launched, the Fenwickians interrupt the countdown at four for tea. And so on for an hour and a half. Terry-Thomas, Ron Moody, Roddy McMillan and half a dozen others help Miss Rutherford make Mouse on the Moon a delightful escape...
...second film begins comically, but without subtlety or surprises, and sustains its humor as the story grows stronger and more absorbing; it deals with a student who comes home from Calcutta to find that his mother has decided that he should marry. He dislikes the girl she chooses and she dislikes his own choice, a wild, semi-literate tomboy. He marries the tomboy, who feels trapped and sneaks out on their wedding night to feed her pet squirrel. Bewildered and annoyed, the student goes back to Calcutta, telling her to write if she wants him. She mopes until she realizes...