Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, virtue in vice. But always there have been signs that inside the humorist, a serious novelist was struggling to get out. Now, in The Blood of the Lamb, absurdity becomes tragic, and De Vries says what has been on his lips all along: life is a joke, and a bad one at that...
...however, smokers who have laughingly offered their friends cancer sticks may discover just how sick the joke really is. A committee of nine doctors appointed by Britain's Royal College of Physicians has published a report on smoking and cancer which summarizes evidence collected in Britain by scientists and statisticians over the last decade; with no particular drum to beat and very little moralizing, the report makes some very scary points...
...laugh. R.M. tilts back in his chair, scoops up some peanuts from a silver bowl, drops a few into his mouth, brushes a husk from his tie, and jerks a thumb toward a sign on the wall that reads "777 Days Until Opening." Says R.M.: "That's no joke. We'll be open and we'll be ready." The smiling assistants compete mildly for the first affirmative. R.M. reaches for more peanuts...
...they settle down to amuse themselves, the camera sweeps desultorily from one group to another, waiting only long enough to what the viewer's curiosity. Just before the punchline of a joke or the winning trick of a cardgame, the scene shifts elsewhere. During this rapid cutting, one couple is included more and more frequently until the camera finally comes to rest on them. They are A and X, the third level...
...Morey and Mr. Paul do it anyway in a scene about two Soviets in a satellite. After that howler is repeated, Beulah reads a letter from the government saying. "On Stalin Prize certificate for 1952, read 'Lenin.'" Very funy, or at least it would be if the joke weren't older than the actors. And so it goes, in so many scenes: the tried-and-true, hoary wisecracks...