Word: joker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...husband, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Andrew Madsen. They drank bourbon-and-Coke, played "Pass the Kleenex,"*and Yvette twitted her Georgia-born host, another U.S. officer, on his Dixie drawl. "O.K.," responded the airman good-naturedly, "how do you say it in Brook-lynese?" Sensitive Yvette slapped the joker full in the face and demanded that her husband take her home immediately. Andy Madsen, a Californian, was too busy laughing to pay much attention. He tossed her the keys to the family car, and Yvette stormed out alone...
...Angry Joker? Dr. Tsiang suggested that the matter of whether he was officially present should be taken up at a special meeting. But Malik said that any meeting with Tsiang was a "parody." Then Malik (having less difficulty than Alice had had with her flamingo) tucked his papers under his arm and stalked out. He did not even wait to hear the translation of his speech into French and English. For all he knew (officially), a majority of the Council members would agree with him when they learned what...
...Lady Takes a Sailor (Warner) pursues its laughs with the single-mindedness of a determined practical joker. A low-comedy farce about sedate professional people, it douses the characters with paint, runs them down with trick automobiles, and sticks them with pitchforks. The plot maneuvers Jane Wyman, director of a consumers' research institute, into Dennis Morgan's top-secret navy sea tractor. Jane's reputation in her job depends on proving that she was actually underseas with Morgan, Morgan's on suppressing the film she shot in his craft. Most of the gags are pretty thin...
...joker in Shaw breaks out sufficiently in Caesar and Cleopatra, e.g., his burlesqued esthete (well played by John Buckmaster) and frightfully proper Early Briton (well played by Arthur Treacher). But the tone of the play is prevailingly wry and ironic. The air seems very chill at times for all the Mediterranean sunlight. A bald and aging conqueror withholds his heart from a violent young girl rather than have her torture it; then, with a rueful smile, promises to send her a dashing young Marc Antony. "Murder shall breed murder . . ." he laments, "until the gods are tired of blood and create...