Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wylie's appointment apparently caused a few laughs in the Capital. "I've been a peasant for the last 15 years; every time I've gone to France I've lived in the country. In Washington, they thought it was a great joke that they were appointing a Cultural Attache who knows more peasants that intellectuals," he said...
White Voices, touted in publicity as an Italian-style Tom Jones, is a ribald comedy based on one long, indelicate joke about the once-celebrated castrati, the eunuch sopranos of Italy. Gelded at an early age to preserve the pitch and "whiteness" of their voices, the castrati enlivened Europe's leading salons and opera stages for most of the 17th and 18th centuries...
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...book is a pot boiler--implausible, silly, absurd. The critics, more patronizing than venomous, they were right. It is a joke. A good joke, and even Norman knew we would laugh, with its superhero hero, outrageous farce situations. Or a grotesque joke, so ugly with violence and incest and morbid broodings and salacious psychopathology; a joke in bad taste...
When Vadim tires of treating sex as a naughty joke, he pads episodes with excursions into screwball farce. Playwright Jean Anouilh's scenario seldom seems funny, perhaps because the laughs are lost in the dubbed English version. Frequent close-ups make accurate lip synchronization impossible, and the flat, disembodied voices set up a sound barrier. It is a bit like watching dancers whirl through a Viennese waltz while the band plays Yankee Doodle...