Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HAYDN: QUARTETS OPUS 3, NO. 5; OPUS 33, NO. 2; OPUS 76, NO. 2 (London). A sampling from three periods of Haydn's music, mileposts in the early history of the string quartet. The earliest, nicknamed "The Serenade," sounds like party music played by strolling strings. "The Joke" is more serious; its nickname comes from Haydn's wager that the ladies would talk before the music ended. The last of the three shows Haydn at his richest and most complex. The members of the Janácek Quartet from Czechoslovakia play the works from memory, but they play...
...CHILDREN: "You must never expect the very young to have a sense of humor of their own. Children are acutely risible, stirred to laughter by dozens of human mishaps, preferably fatal. They can understand the points of jokes, so long as the joke is not on them. Their egos...
Thanks to Playwright Wallach's quip hand, nimble direction by James Hammerstein, and faultless comic timing by a superior cast, Cello breezes along even when it is replaying the same joke. But the plot is strangely unknowing in its pivotal notion. No sane corporation would think of stamping a scientist of stature into a cog-sized mold. And nowadays scientists do not "sell out"-they buy in, by forming their own companies and voting themselves stock options...
...Living Doll is a one-joke show, but the joke is a knockout. Julie Newmar, once of The Marriage-Go-Round, here plays a robot created by an aerospace scientist. Her viking-size body is actually a compilation of electronic equipment sheathed in homogenous polyethylene plastic. A mistress in a million, she will do anything she is told. In the middle of her back is an OFF and ON button. The man who works it is Bob Cummings, as a psychiatrist who is looking after Julie for his creative friend. "My construction is similar to the one-piece die casting...
...Woman puts a savage switch on the sly old joke about the monkey who notes hopefully that people look "almost simian...