Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after a sprightly start-skitters irresolutely about in a diversity of moods on a variety of subjects, now proffering a dash of pageantry and now a dab of legend, now sending off Merlin early, now calling in Mordred late, here with some medieval jousting, there with a too modern joke. As a result, the comedy comes to sit a little uneasily while everything else is kept standing and shifting its feet. When at length there is no place for comedy and the story moves toward its stormy sunset and final clash of arms, what has been brokenly...
Send Me No Flowers (by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore) is one more of those popular comedies that hang a lot of baby jests around a papa joke, and that drive a rachitic bit of plot literally to the graveyard. David Wayne is a fervent hypochondriac who, listening in on his doctor's phone call about a doomed patient, concludes it is he who is doomed and makes wheelchair preparations for dying, death and burial. When this misunderstanding is cleared up, a new misunderstanding is quickly brewed: now Nancy Olson, Wayne's pretty wife, decides that...
Doubtless a touch of hypochondria makes the whole world kin and guarantees moments of sympathetic laughter. But when hypochondria shifts to fancied heart disease, it is easier to be farcical than funny and the baby jokes get more and more unruly as the papa joke lies feebly wasting away. When at last sex gains admittance, the show takes on more life and produces some funny moments. But moments only; Send Me No Flowers, as a whole, is geared too low, pushed too hard and stretched...
...down on park benches. He is human dirt, but of a kind that makes the earth earthy. She is refined past the point of passion, yet curiously unawakened, nervously expectant. In the hands of a less urbane stylist, a sexual encounter between Faith and Jacques could be a coarse joke. But British Novelist Tom Kaye omits four-letter words; he is celebrating a four-letter god, Eros, the deity he believes makes the world go round...
...angle. Many general practitioners no longer will dispense telephone advice or permit prescription refills. Suit-shy surgeons, says a San Francisco doctor, have become "frankly reluctant to try radical things-which might do a patient some good." Doctors dislike these dodges, but they feel in real pocketbook danger. A joke going the rounds among physicians has St. Peter greet a man at the gates of heaven saying: "You weren't due here until 1965. Go back and sue your doctor for malpractice...