Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same plane, but partly redeemed by humor, are the one-joke japes around which Hollywood has built entire pictures. In Marriage-Go-Round an Amazonian Swede decides to have the perfect baby with a married college professor; Happy Anniversary dealt with a married couple's knee-slapping revelation that their 13th wedding anniversary was actually the 14th of their togetherness. Proof that such stories can be first-rate if treated right: Facts of Life, in which middle-aged Suburbanites Bob Hope and Lucille Ball tail a course in infidelity...
Nothing much happens in these stories, and nothing much is meant to happen. There is tension without release, motion without direction. As a mask dropper, Lowry keeps reappearing under names that are part symbol, part joke and part hoax: Sigbjørn Wilderness, Kennish Drumgold Cosnahan, Roderick McGregor Fairhaven. It would be easy to dismiss these characters as anxious bores if they were not also unholy ghosts, shadows of a perturbed spirit, "ghouls of past delirium, wounds to other souls, ghosts of actions approximating to murder, betrayals of self and I know not what, ready to leap out and destroy...
Jews like to joke that when three of them get together, they are bound to produce four opinions. As of last week, Jewish leaders with deeply held and vastly differing opinions were involved in a dispute that went to the very heart of Jewry. At immediate issue was the relationship between the U.S.'s 5,500,000 Jews and the proud state of Israel (pop. 2,115,000). But even broader and greater was an old issue revolving around the meaning and purpose of Jewry. Is Jewishness a religion, a nationality or a peoplehood? In sum: What...
...lighter vein, Bunche observed that "we don't have much humor at the U.N.... but we've been having a lot more since Adlai Stevenson arrived." He recalled the Stevenson's joke, originally from a Dutch diplomat, on one of the marks of progress--"now the people in New Guinea are eating only fishermen on Fridays...
...Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). In "The Joke and the Valley," Dean Stockwell is an idealistic stranger, Thomas Mitchell and Keenan Wynn the rustic pranksters. Justice triumphs. Color...