Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...static electricity) and assembled at the blast of a trumpet-the gift of Manhattan's musicians-playfully tooted by father John. For relaxation they spent successive evenings at the theater, at How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and at Camelot. Glenn's sense of humor flashed when he met Sir Harry Howard, Lord Mayor of Perth, Australia, the city that had turned on all its lights as Glenn orbited overhead. Quipped Glenn: "I was a little bit worried when I saw the Lord Mayor show up. I was afraid he might have brought the light bill...
...Like Myself." It is a plea from a driven, riven man-although outwardly Williams does not seem that way. He has ready good humor and an explosive laugh. His drawl is as smooth as the good bourbon with which it is usually enriched. He stands 5 ft. 6 in., weighs 155 lbs., and like most Americans worries about his weight. He is darkly good-looking, and might in another era have passed for a Mississippi riverboat gambler...
From the age of twelve, Tom had spent a lot of time at the home of a girl named Hazel Kramer, "an incredibly lovely person, tremendously understanding, a terrific sense of humor." C.C. did not like her. When he heard that she was entering the University of Missouri with Tom, he pressured her grandfather, who worked for International Shoe, to send her to another school. She married someone else, and died while still young. That was the closest Williams came to marriage, though certain actresses have since had crushes on him. Says Anna Magnani, for whom he wrote The Rose...
...fascinating minor work by a continually amazing major artist: Japan's Akira Kurosawa. Filmed in 1957, Depths is presented simply as a Japanization of Maxim Gorky's classic proletarian comedy, but in fact the film has a hissing demonic energy and a vast life-welcoming humor that are unmistakably Kurosawa...
...interpreted with earthy humor and shining grace by Bokuzen Hidari, is the vortical figure in the film. The other characters turn to him as men turn instinctively to a light in darkness. He is a holy idiot, a saint who is wanted by the police. He looks like a lamb, he looks like a dragon. Unhuman understanding blazes in his eyes-or is it merely the firelight reflected? Prophetic wisdom flames from his mouth-or is he simply playing the oracle? "Lies are not always evil, nor is the truth always good . . . Blessed are those who believe in something, even...