Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer to this question sets up a hunky-gory conclusion to a plotsy-totsy script; but the actors are no match for the material. Debbie Reynolds, as the murderer's wife, is so cute it hurts. And Hero Ford, an actor who explains every joke with a series of vague, unnecessary gestures, kills more scenes than he does people. Still, a couple of hilarious reels and some nifty dialogue survive...
...through the pass. He returns alone, mortally wounded and grimly amused at the irony of his end: the general he had intended to support has won, but in the confusion of fighting, the captain has thrown his company into battle with the loser. "Yes, I can see the joke of that," says Vogel, also wounded. "You might put it that one always does join the wrong army...
Although this may be taken as a joke against both sides, Author Granick (who has taught at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and is now at the University of Glasgow on a Fulbright grant) has catalogued the Soviet Org Man's habits and habitat with stern scholarship; his book has more graphs than laughs. But the irony is still there-the rublerouser in his square suit by Hart Schaffner and especially Marx, concerned about work schedules, procurement, and the problem of keeping down with the Joneses...
...risk of destroying Reader Peters' humor, TIME translates his letter: "You say you want to jest? Either do not use the joke in our language, or do not translate it literally into your own and destroy...
Even before he became an Anglican priest and took the chaplaincy of Trinity College, Oxford (1912), Knox was a "Romanizer." He was attracted to the rituals, vestments, "Mariolatrous hymns" and incense that his father among others was bent on stamping out. As a family joke Ronald once scented his father's private chapel with incense. Wrote Knox: "I can't feel that the Church of England is an ultimate solution...