Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cinema circuit. It was a great spoof of all sorts of movies, from the Last Year at Marienbad variety to the Disney cartoon, and it was brilliantly funny without being selfconsciously clever. Writer-director Adolfas Mekas has tried without success to pull off the same sort of joke in Hallelujah. All that comes through however, is an hour and a half of very self-conscious and very unfunny cleverness...
...scenery jerked away in the opera's final moment while the cast tore off their wigs and pointed mocking fingers at the audience. "This is a very disturbing opera, and you should be reminded at the end that it is disturbing," he argued. "Everything is a big joke! You've all been cheated!" But Met Manager Rudolf Bing didn't get it-he figured it would look like a grotesque error by the boys backstage. So he spared his audience what might have been a stunning experience...
...This joke, which may be just about right for an eight-year-old, is one of many similar "Cornfucius" gags that will soon assault U.S. households. It is part of a radio ad campaign launched this week by the Kellogg Co. of Battle Creek, Mich., a firm that enjoys feeding the nation corn through its eyes and ears as well as through its esophagus. Kellogg is the world's largest maker of ready-to-eat cereals, and its 25 plants, serving 150 countries, turn out the equivalent of 9 billion bowls of cereal a year in 19 varieties. Last...
...sheriff's deputy is a pointedly jolly individual, known to joke and giggle while in the process of beating a prisoner with his five-pound strap or shoving him into the tiny black steam-heated solitary 'hotbox' cell. The only thing which seems to upset his routine of chuckling brutality is the presence of "Freedom Riders" (He manages to make it sound like an obscenity). He doesn't like...
Peter Skolnik has staged a clever and well-placed version of The Fantasticks. The actors remove themselves from the story to joke with each other and with the audience; yet Skolnik has coached them to make a flawless transition from portrayers to portrayed. And he has succeeded in making dewy, sentimental lines like "my bride will dress in sunlight with rain for her wedding veil" sound plausible. He has skillfully used the mute (Lorenzo Weisman) in his various roles as a wall, a tree, a bricklaver, and nature...