Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moderately comfortable Seattle family, Evans inherited his interest in politics from his mother's side. "One of the earliest remembrances I have is watching mother dress up to go to the Herbert Hoover victory celebration when he ran against F.D.R.," says Evans. "It has become a standing family joke...
...title is an umbrella for two amiable one-acters by Ireland's Brian Friel (Philadelphia, Here I Come!) that find tears in youthful exuberance and laughter in domestic conflict. In Winners, the curtain raiser, a betrothed young Irish couple joke and dream on a hilltop, planning their wedding, mocking the nuns and priests who have taught them. As they banter, a narrator (Art Carney), introduces a fragment of the future-the couple drown in a nearby lake. These are their last hours on earth, which take on new sweetness and meaning as the afternoon and their lives inexorably draw...
...four of his scruffy gunmates are set to swing for murder. The visiting hangman (James Stewart) rides into town looking like Ichabod Crane with a bad case of saddle sores, and cacklingly tells the condemned that they have the kind of "necks that'll snap pretty good." The joke, see, is that Stewart is really Martin's square-shootin' brother, and the hangman bit is a ruse to spring Dino and the boys. The trick clicks, and the gang gallops off into the bandolero (bandit) country of Mexico. On the way they pick up a shapely senorita...
...Proposition features an ever-changing repertoire of 42-plus skits written by the members of the company, from which about 20 are drawn for each performance. Comedy is hard to write and harder to play--anyone who has tried either knows how often jokes end up poking too hard or at a subject too sensitive, only to sour into boredom or embarrassment. And everyone who ever blew a joke realizes the demands comedy makes for exactly the right gesture, the right voice, the right mood and the right timing. But except for a few TW3-type series of shorts aimed...
...inhabitants, and because many young West Berliners are moving to West Germany for better jobs, the city's population is growing disturbingly old. More than 20% of West Berlin's residents are now 65 or older (v. 12½% in West Germany). According to one macabre local joke, undertaking is the city's only booming business; yet even that is not free from problems. Because of a shortage of cemetery space and gravediggers, almost half the city's dead are now cremated-with the result that the city's two crematoriums have become overburdened...