Word: jape
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual, Buchwald was only kidding. But his column, syndicated in 207 newspapers, reaches millions of readers, not all of whom saw through his whimsical jape. Soon newspapers all over were fielding telephone calls from anxious subscribers seeking assurance that there really was a J. Edgar Hoover, or angrily offering to prove Buchwald wrong. "Hundreds took Buchwald seriously, and thought he was just misinformed," reported the Austin (Tex.) Statesman...
Despite a surprising amount of documentation of the serious work of WHO, the comic know-HOW of Terry-Thomas makes the movie a light, diverting jape...
...conversion of Cissy Goforth is a bizarre jape, an eccentric and perhaps sophomoric joke. In the fall (if all goes as planned), Broadway audiences will be able to see for themselves whether they find it possible to pity, or to laugh...
...furniture of Manhattan's Harvard Club, only to find the place set with traps. For cocktail-hour amusement before a dinner of the Friends of Harvard's Fogg Museum, the Fogg's director, tweedy John P. Coolidge of the Boston Coolidges, had arranged a jolly academic jape: the walls were hung with forged art-or was it all forged...
...solemn may try to see political satire in this jape. It is true that one of a pack of thieves says, "At least we're not nationalized yet," and an official-looking sign in a workingwomen's boardinghouse reads, "Chastity is the Best Policy! Don't See Your Husband." But the only real politics in this film is lunatic anarchy. Everyone mugs like mad, and if a sight gag falls flat, there is another along in ten seconds. It all serves as a reminder that the early-Hollywood, dead-run comedy used to be awfully funny...