Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...video air as he and Walter Pidgeon do a delightful soft-shoe dance, or as he says: "There are 14 saloons in this town, and I've never set foot in one of them-the one on 4th Street." But Actor Pidgeon, with his plaintive middle-aged joke in Staying Young, and Robert Morse, with his just-right teen-age theatrics in I Would Die, and Eileen Herlie, hilariously spinsterish about the facts of life in I Get Embarrassed, are refreshingly personal rather than professional in their way with a song...
...spiral exhibition ramp to the public. A monument to the late philanthropist's vision, even more a temple to its architect, the late Frank Lloyd Wright, this "organic" concrete form looms--almost leers--over Fifth Avenue at 88th Street, provoking speculation that Wright was playing a private "cosmic joke...
...joke, critics say, is not only on New York but on the artists whose pictures hang inside what Robert Moses once called "an inverted oatmeal dish." The museum's function, they maintain, has been defeated by the overpowering design; Wright's blindness to all other arts except architecture caused him deliberately to subordinate the hangings to the walls...
What was intensely irritating about the show was its phony air of spontaneity, with every delighted squeal ("Darling, I haven't seen you in ages'') and every "ad-lib"' joke carefully put down beforehand by veteran Radio-TV Writer Goodman Ace and a staff of three. Typical of the show's calculated coyness was the time Tallulah Bankhead (whose parody of herself is becoming increasingly pathetic) started to tell a joke about some Texans in Paris, only to be cut off by a commercial. Writer-Producer Ace promises that on successive shows a guest will...
...Harry passing by can get his fill. They ought to do something about it. Maybe the people who run the place are the ones. How can a guy respect colleges when stuff like this goes on? It's no treat for me, you know. I mean it's a joke...